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Woman Jailed After Virtual Murder

By Miss Cellania in Blog & Internet on Oct 24, 2008 at 9:10 am


An unnamed Japanese woman reacted in anger after her virtual husband divorced her in the interactive game “Maple Story”. She reacted by killing him -not the player, but his online avatar! The player whose online persona was murdered complained to police, who arrested the woman on suspicion of hacking. She used information she got from the other player in order to destroy his avatar. If convicted, she could face up to five years in prison. Link -Thanks, Geekazoid!


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  1. just a guy
    Oct 24th, 2008 at 9:30 am

    whereas I can see hacking as a punishable crime, if he gave her his login info when they were together, then she shouldn't be guilty. Doesn't that kind of stuff happen with couples all the time? (one using the other's info/access - like creditcards or emails - after a breakup to do mean things).

    Again, though, even though this story is kind of silly, its a great example of how media twists things to get more 'ratings' (or 'views'). This issue really had nothing to do with 'murder', virtual or no. She'd be in the same trouble if she just deleted his account or gave away his avatar's stuff, etc... it's really about cyber-crime.

  2. nick
    Oct 24th, 2008 at 11:01 am

    hmm...

  3. Thomas
    Oct 24th, 2008 at 11:03 am

    In many areas (like America), using someone's password without their permission is tantamount to forging their signature on a document and is prosecutable as fraud, I believe.

  4. EEM
    Oct 24th, 2008 at 1:36 pm

    hahaha oh japan

  5. DOJ
    Oct 24th, 2008 at 6:18 pm

    These things happen all the time. Level 70 men often dump their wives to chase the level 20 tail fresh on the server.

  6. hearse trax
    Oct 25th, 2008 at 6:31 am

    they ought to make such people get spayed and or nutered b4 they r able to play

  7. Christophe
    Oct 25th, 2008 at 11:49 pm

    So true DOJ!

    Let's send her avatar to prison, hu?

  8. Aki
    Oct 26th, 2008 at 6:32 am

    Joker would have said this to the husband,"Why so serious?" ha ha ha

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