Comments on: Woman Jailed After Virtual Murder

By: Aki

Aki — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:32:35 +0000

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

By: Christophe

Christophe — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:49:22 +0000

So true DOJ!

Let’s send her avatar to prison, hu?

By: hearse trax

hearse trax — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:31:10 +0000

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

By: DOJ

DOJ — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:18:05 +0000

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

By: EEM

EEM — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:36:03 +0000

hahaha oh japan

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:03:12 +0000

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.

By: nick

nick — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:01:23 +0000

hmm…

By: just a guy

just a guy — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:30:15 +0000

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.