Corante

Home > Weblog Columns > Many-to-Many
Authors

Clay Shirky
( Archive | Home )

Liz Lawley
( Archive | Home )

Ross Mayfield
( Archive | Home )

Sébastien Paquet
( Archive | Home )

David Weinberger
( Archive | Home )

danah boyd
( Archive | Home )

Guest Authors
Recent Comments

quang cao online on My book. Let me Amazon show you it.

Dalam Hensi on My book. Let me Amazon show you it.

Oil Jobs on My book. Let me Amazon show you it.

Toplu konut on My book. Let me show you it.

embarazo on My book. Let me Amazon show you it.

Eric Alex on My book. Let me Amazon show you it.

Recent Trackbacks

The POKE with No Name: The art of the overshare

How-To Primers: MySpace, Moral Panic, Education, Personal Safety, and Institutional Responsibility and Regulation

SortiPreneur: MySpace's Prospects (Guided by the Friendster Story)

Mashable.com/journal: Danah Boyd on MySpace and Friendster

The New Market Machines: Decisions, Decisions: Fair Isaac’s Reading List

The New Market Machines: SunGard Plugs In Services–And Blogs To Tell It

Site Search
Monthly Archives
Syndication
RSS 1.0
RSS 2.0
In the Boston area?: Join us on June 11 for Startups and the Cloud, a free event on cloud computing with insights from Intuit founder Scott Cook and others

Many-to-Many

« Everquest to Launch Player Auctions | Main | MUTE: File-sharing goes (more) social »

December 19, 2003

Online Gamer wins return of virtual property in real court

Email This Entry

Posted by Clay Shirky

A first?
A Chinese court has ordered an online video game company to return hard-won virtual property, including a make-believe stockpile of bio-chemical weapons, to a player whose game account was looted by a hacker.
I wonder if Julian is going to have to give back his fenced goods too?

Comments (0) + TrackBacks (0) | Category: social software


TRACKBACKS

TrackBack URL:
http://www.corante.com/cgi-bin/mt/teriore.fcgi/1274.

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Online Gamer wins return of virtual property in real court:


EMAIL THIS ENTRY TO A FRIEND

Email this entry to:

Your email address:

Message (optional):




RELATED ENTRIES
› Spolsky on Blog Comments: Scale matters
› "The internet's output is data, but its product is freedom"
› Andrew Keen: Rescuing 'Luddite' from the Luddites
› knowledge access as a public good
› viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
› Gorman, redux: The Siren Song of the Internet
› Mis-understanding Fred Wilson's 'Age and Entrepreneurship' argument
› The Future Belongs to Those Who Take The Present For Granted: A return to Fred Wilson's "age question"