Online Gamer Wins Virtual Theft Lawsuit

Posted by simoniker on Friday December 19, 2003 @05:19AM from the virtual-money-for-nothing dept.

ThePretender writes "A Reuters article details the story of (what I believe is) the first online-gaming lawsuit won regarding virtual theft, with a Chinese court ordering a game company to 'return hard-won virtual property to a player whose game account was looted by a hacker'. Apparently, the article feels the need to throw in that the RedMoon-playing gamer's looted booty included 'a make-believe stockpile of bio-chemical weapons' for some reason... 'I exchanged the equipment with my labour, time, wisdom and money, and of course they are my belongings,' said Li Hongchen (the gamer) and the courts agreed, ordering the game company to restore his bounty." We've covered earlier stages of this lawsuit in the past.

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To gamers of the rest of the world by jsse · 2003-12-19 05:58 · Score: 2, Informative

China is running statute law system.

While US and UK etc. are running common law system.

This case is very unlikely to be used as a preceding case for common law system.

Save your champagne until someone actually win a simliar case in US, UK... :)

Well, to gamers in China, save your champagne as well. There's no 'preceding case' mechanism I can tell in China's statute law system. I think you'd better save it til YOU actually win a case. :)