Should Gamers Be Prosecuted For Virtual Stealing

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Alex Weiss wrote, “Should Gamers Be Prosecuted for Virtual Stealing” which compares virtual laws to real life laws. The thesis of his argument is “video games are not work or investments for which people should be compensated; they are escapism” (Weiss). He is saying that what happens in a video game should stay in a video game. It should have no correlation to the outside world. One an example he gives to support his thesis is,” These projects may seem foolish to those outside of the gaming world but they represent a great a deal to their creators. And these hopes and dreams can be destroyed rapidly by another player who just wan to be a jerk” (Weiss 732). He says right there that a player could spend months on making something when in just

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 In 2012, the Dutch Supreme Court convicted a teenager of “virtual theft.” The defendant stole two items within the then-popular game Runescape. Although the defendant’s attorney pointed out the neither items even existed or had any real economic value, the court ruled that the time spent by the victim in the acquisition of these items within the game actually gave them economic value. The author gives examples of similar behavior being not only allowed, but accepted within older, similar games. The author argues that gamers should not be prosecuted for theft within games, assuming the stolen “object” has no economic value, and that cases like this one “[make] no sense to [him].”

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Many online gamers will pay for virtual items with real money. Some people want laws in effect for the real world to protect their rights to their belongings. Theft in the virtual world occurs quite often. In an article titled, “Should Gamers be Prosecuted for Virtual Stealing?” the author Alex Weiss calls out a young teenage boy who is being prosecuted for stealing in a video game. It seems to be a legal blunder that is very straight forward, but becomes a heated debate. It begins with the argument should we prosecute a gamer for stealing via the virtual world? Alex Weiss is correct in saying that prosecution for virtual

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Summary: In this article a situation involving two parties is broken down and explained. First there is the victim who claims he was stolen from on a virtual game called runescape. While the other party is the thief who is being charged with theft. The writer states his opinion throughout the piece and makes it very apparent that this is childish. However the victim felt it was enough to take to federal court. The victim claims that the thief stole a amulet and a sword from him in the game. The reason he feels he can take this 13 year old to court is because he invested money in the subscription and also time to obtain the virtual currency to buy these items. The big issue with this case however is the fact that the thief used violent actions with his virtual character to obtain the objects from the owner. The writer goes on to state that it is a virtual game and therefore no crime was committed. This case in the end concluded in court that the thief believes that it was a crime and sentences the 13 year old to 145 hours of community service.

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INTRODUCTION: Criminal justice is about the operation of the system that seeks to punish those who do wrong, but it is also about why some people engage in bad behavior. With the development of entire generations of computer users becoming comfortable with what these new technologies have to offer, it's not surprising that more researchers are questioning whether usage alone actually causes people to engage in inappropriate activity. A good deal of attention on this issue centers on topics such as violence within certain types of online games and even the propensity of some people (particularly young people) to spend a lot of time in this virtual environment. It is often assumed that there is in fact a direct relationship between certain user preferences and the likelihood that they may become more involved in aggressive, violent or other types of anti-social behaviors. Research on the topic of how video and online involvement impacts criminal activity is

Alex Weiss an ex -Video gamer believes that “Video games are not work or investments for which people should be compensated; they are escapism.” His rational is based on the decision of the Dutch court to charge a 13year old boy with stealing two virtual items during the playing of a game called RuneScape. Weiss uses different examples as to why he believes the 13-year-old had done nothing wrong. One reason being” the developers of the game RuneScape did not explicitly state that the thief couldn’t do what he did.” I agree that a 13-year-old should not be taken in to court because of a virtual game that should be the responsibility of his parents to monitor what kind of game and what the rules are that their child is playing.