Woman in Jail over VIRTUAL MURDER!5 YEARS IN JAIL POSSIBLY!

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colonelstubbs on 24 October 2008

I guess she didnt know how hardcore her husband is....

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Garnett on 24 October 2008

Stupid casual gamers...

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Simulacrum on 24 October 2008

^^^^
Don't blame casual gamers.

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Joeykanga on 24 October 2008

I think 5 years is too much...

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NYANKS on 24 October 2008

To be fair, as Noslodecoy has said above she accessed someone else's data illegally and screwed with it. 5 years does suck, but she definitely did something serious.

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Gnizmo on 24 October 2008

This is not a case of virtual man slaughter. This is a case of someone getting busted for computer hacking and the internets blowing it way out of proportion. Randomly breaking into computers and fucking with the data is potentially very very serious and needs to be punished for even the minor cases to keep it all in-line.

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xman on 24 October 2008

Words Of Wisdom said:

xman said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

xman said:
You got to be kidding I wish somone in HP would go to jail when I lose my hardrive thats worse than someone killing off my character.

If someone from HP breaks into your house and sets your hard drive on fire, they probably would go to jail.

To me this is like giving someone a spare key to your car to use it if they need to. Yes, you're giving them the ability to wreck it, but they should be obligated to compensate you if they do.

The fact that the woman did this deliberately would translate above to someone deliberately driving away with your car and pushing it off a cliff. I doubt you were thinking they'd do that when you gave them the keys!

The woman has done something wrong here, it's just a matter of degree and how the law handles cyber offenses.

My car is worth $30K my virtual guy could theoretically be resurrected for free.

We're not talking about killing a character, we're talking about deleting it. In a game like Maple Story where it is financed by micro-transactions and purchases for the character, that little in-game avatar could be the result of hundreds if not thousands of dollars spent on it depending on how fanatical the player is and that, depending on how the company runs the game, may not be recoverable at all.

And those my friend, are damages.

I agree but 5 years in jail??? Dont you think that is exessive

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Words Of Wisdom on 24 October 2008

xman said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

xman said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

xman said:
You got to be kidding I wish somone in HP would go to jail when I lose my hardrive thats worse than someone killing off my character.

If someone from HP breaks into your house and sets your hard drive on fire, they probably would go to jail.

To me this is like giving someone a spare key to your car to use it if they need to. Yes, you're giving them the ability to wreck it, but they should be obligated to compensate you if they do.

The fact that the woman did this deliberately would translate above to someone deliberately driving away with your car and pushing it off a cliff. I doubt you were thinking they'd do that when you gave them the keys!

The woman has done something wrong here, it's just a matter of degree and how the law handles cyber offenses.

My car is worth $30K my virtual guy could theoretically be resurrected for free.

We're not talking about killing a character, we're talking about deleting it. In a game like Maple Story where it is financed by micro-transactions and purchases for the character, that little in-game avatar could be the result of hundreds if not thousands of dollars spent on it depending on how fanatical the player is and that, depending on how the company runs the game, may not be recoverable at all.

And those my friend, are damages.

I agree but 5 years in jail??? Dont you think that is exessive

5 years in jail is the maximum sentence for the crime, not the guaranteed one. The maximum sentence is always the harshest sentence possible though I seriously doubt the DA would push for that in this case.