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Is Virtual Rape a Crime?
cyberianpan writes "Wired is carrying commentary on the story that Brussels police have begun an investigation into a citizen's allegations of rape in Second Life. For reasons of civil liberty & clarity we'd like to confine criminal law to physical offenses rather than thought crimes but already threats, menace & conspiracy count as crimes. Could we see a situation where our laws extend?"
Was she virtually asking for it?
Don't flame me, I know it's awful.
You could get sent to virtual prison.
"Hey! What the hell are you doing to my character>!?!?!"
"You said you'd f*ck me! It's in the chat logs! It's consensual! You have nothing on me!! HAHAHAHAHAHA"
Teabagging after a good round of pwnage will be illegal now.
Yes it's an anecdote! Were you expecting original research in a Slashdot comment?
Ridiculus maybe. But I wouldn't mind making teamkilling a felony :P
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If being raped in Second Life is a crime, then we need to invent new punishments for what happened to me on Furrymuck.
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"In other news, ScuttleMonkey Industries reported that their profits were at an all-time high thanks to continued graft payments from the creators of Second Life to continue greenlighting stories about their company on Slashdot..."
Crow T. Trollbot
If you get tricked into clicking a goatse link, can you sue for ambush and rape?
If so then I'd be bankrupt and serving a life sentence as a serial offender.
Trolling is a art,
"if you are being virtually raped you should [jack] off."
MABASPLOOM!
Maybe she's pissed off cos she caught a nasty virus from the encounter.
Actually, there has been a case like the one you describe..you can read about it right here
(i am so getting modded down for this)
Infinite time means everything that can happen, will. You being you is absolutely incidental. You do not exist.
while playing Quake.. over and over and over again.
Let's see. virtual rape is all 1's and 0's. Has anybody examined the bits to see if any of the 1's were stuck through the middle of any of the 0's? I can forsee a day when a judge has redefined the bit '1' as male because it looks like a big cock, and a '0' could be a cunt hole.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
If there is such a thing (and there is not), then I'm going to warn you Hollywood; each and every time I pay to watch a movie, I feel virtually raped.
Belief is the currency of delusion.
I have to put away my Virtual Wizard Hat now?
Furry A: Give me all your virtual money!
Furry B: No!
Furry A: Then I pull a virtual gun.
Furry B: Then I pull a bigger virtual gun.
Furry A: Then I pull the biggest virtual gun in the virtual world.
Furry B: OK, here you go.
[Insert pithy quote here]
I'm sorry, this is slashdot. I need a car analogy in order to understand your point.
FATMOUSE + YOU = FATMOUSE
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
My god. If I changed my .sig to "I'm inserting my virtual penis into your unwilling virtual vagina", would I become the worlds most prolific serial virtual rapist? That would be virtually awesome!
Also FatPhil on SoylentNews, id 863
Could you rate this offense in terms of libraries of congress please?
Nine.
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
> Sentence them to Virtual time in a Virtual prison.
With Virtual assrape!
Or worse: could she demand virtual child support? :)
I can just see it now. "Yeah that's CoolChick1392. She's my virtual-baby momma.".
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
This is slashdot. Perhaps you meant "I'm inserting my virtual penis into your unwilling virtual mangina".
Loose lips lose spit.
It's not a strip club, it's a series of boobs!
Sorry, you said lame analogy; only one thing comes to mind.
It's not exactly rocket surgery.