Woman Arrested for Virtual Murder
Wow — saw this yesterday. A woman, who had married a guy in “Maple Story” (an online virtual world similar to SecondLife), got angry and killed his avatar (online persona) after he divorced her in the virtual world. He reported his tragedy to police and they arrested her yesterday in Japan. For murder? No — but for illegally hacking a computer. As Manuel Castells said many years ago — it isn’t virtual reality, but real virtuality.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081023/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_avatar_murder
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