=p  Oh is this old news?  I thought that I read this before.

Or is it another case ^^''?

Y ou have heard about it when the case started.

Did Mr Bubbles just called us silly?? This will not end well...

OT: Great.. I wonder if I still could get busted for that time when I "traded" that PokeMon.... xD

Mr Bubbles: consider yourself lucky that the Dutch are a very forgiving people, cause my hand was very close to the ban-button...

But seriously: once again the Dutch lead the world (although knowing MrBubbles' political view I don't think he'll be very happy with most of those achievements, lol).

Americans and Canadians are far worse than the Dutch when it comes to crime.

I wonder how long Mr Bubbles had to search for this news through  many pages of troubled American youth news?

The LAW here > law america

Actually, the 'coerced' in the article really means 'beat up and threaten with a knife until the guy complied'.

Which tends to be illegal anyway, regardless of what they wanted him to do.

Very good decision in my opinion. While I no longer play any MMOs (apart from Nationstates and thats only because I like being an arsehole dictator) I think that peoples rights in them should be protected by law. People can honestly be badly hurt by thefts in these games - I know of a couple of cases where people have topped themselves after have party hats stolen in RS.

I think it's a good decision and this could be a "funny" thesis if you're a law student. Dutch is by far one of the most innovative law in the world, I think that other european countries (belgium? sweden? Finland?) could follow this.

Virtual goods are goods, a virtual theft is still a theft IMO

No not Belgium (I'm Belgian ;) ) !

Anyway, it is community service not prison .. feels more like a lesson.