Virtual Murder Brings Real Jailtime…
…but the whole thing is real stupid.
According to a story found here, a 43 year old Japanese woman got so upset when her ‘virtual’ husband divorced her from a Second Life type of game (called ‘Maple Story’ I believe?) — that she hacked into his computer with his login and pass in order to kill his online alter ego.
The thing is she really didn’t ‘hack’ anything; she just used the login information that she knew from him and deleted the character he had ‘raised’.
She could get a prison term of up to 5 years of be fined $5000 dollars. Stupid. What they should do is make her login as her character for a year and the character has to do hard time.
Garry Schafer is ScribeMedia's Director of Interactive Media. His weapons of choice are many fold, but he's quite partial to Flex as he builds out live and on-demand media players and a host of other apps. His personal site is grimmwerks.
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