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Dutch Teen Arrested for Virtual Property Theft
vuo writes "A story on the BBC website reports that Dutch police have arrested a teenager for robbery of virtual furniture worth roughly $5900. The crime took place in the virtual world/social network Habbo Hotel, a website run by Sulake Corporation. Sulake has 80 million registered users of its sites in 31 countries. ' Habbo users can create their own characters, decorate their own rooms and play a number of games, paying with Habbo Credits, which they have to buy with real cash. "It is a theft because the furniture is paid for with real money. But the only way to be a thief in Habbo is to get people's usernames and passwords and then log in and take the furniture. We got involved because of an increasing number of sites which are pretending to be Habbo. People might then try and log in and get their details stolen."'"
Will this be handled by a virtual legal system, with other players taking the roles of the police, judges, bailiffs, attorneys, paralegals, etc? Will there be virtual subpoenas, a virtual trial, and possibly a virtual jail for the virtual (alleged) thief?
Infuriate left and right
Kid: Teacher, little Jimmy stole my idea.
Teacher: Well Steve, tell Jimmy to play nice.
Kid: but he stole my IP.
Teacher: You can't steal ideas Steve, now go back outside and play.
Kid: Jimmy is a pussy, I'm going to fucking kill Jimmy.
Teacher: Put that chair down!
due to an ongoing criminal investigation.
Sorry.
---The Management
Not all of us live in our parent's basements...
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
That's nothing to joke about. In Habbo prison, even the pool has AIDS.