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Virtual Goods News: Chinese Man Faces Three Year Sentence For Virtual Currency Extortion
It's worth noting that QQ Coins cannot be converted back into cash once purchased, so there would be no traditional argument that the victim lost items of value as a result of the extortion. Likewise, there are no formal legal protections for virtual property in China. In this ruling, the court argued that the victim had been unlawfully deprived of the money and time used to obtain the QQ Coins that were taken from him.
Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative
Global Kids, the International Human Rights Law Institute and the Institute for War Peace Reporting invite you to participate in a virtual discussion "ICC101 -- a basic orientation to the International Criminal Court"
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Global Kids, the International Human Rights Law Institute and the Institute for War Peace Reporting invite you to participate in a virtual discussion "ICC101 -- a basic orientation to the International Criminal Court"
New World Notes: HOMELAND SECURITY COMES TO SECOND LIFE
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 HOMELAND SECURITY COMES TO SECOND LIFE "Response" is the name of a private (but publicly accessible) island that happens to be owned by a top East Coast University. It's been built to resemble a small town in New England, not t
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005
HOMELAND SECURITY COMES TO SECOND LIFE
"Response" is the name of a private (but publicly accessible) island that happens to be owned by a top East Coast University. It's been built to resemble a small town in New England, not to evoke nostalgia, but to simulate and model emergency response behavior to very real dangers (fires, structure damage, and so on) in an online world. This morning, the leader of that university project (whose avatar is a cybernetic humanoid alien) will be giving a presentation on his work-- which happens to be funded by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative
Welcome to the provisional website of the International Justice Center, an online clearinghouse for public information and action in support of the International Criminal Court and related human rights concerns. The IJC will be based both in the virtual w
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Global Kids' International Justice Center
New World Notes: JIHAD AND SECOND LIFE (Updated)
"Dear James," Dr. Rohan Gunaratna e-mailed me back a few days later, "Instead of saying Al Qaeda, it may be more accurate to say Jihadists." As to how he knows they are in Second Life, he tells me, "We are monitoring them." By "monitoring" them, I pressed
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"Dear James," Dr. Rohan Gunaratna e-mailed me back a few days later, "Instead of saying Al Qaeda, it may be more accurate to say Jihadists."
As to how he knows they are in Second Life, he tells me, "We are monitoring them."
By "monitoring" them, I pressed, are Gunaratna and his associates tracking them in Second Life itself?
To that, he also answered Yes. (Dr. Gunaratna is currently head of the International Center for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore
Slaw: Youth Initiative Uses Virtual World to Support International Criminal Court
The Center will use web technologies and ensure a presence in the virtual reality world of Second Life to mobilize young people around human rights issues.
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The Center will use web technologies and ensure a presence in the virtual reality world of Second Life to mobilize young people around human rights issues.
Virtual Worlds News: Scotland Yard Hunts for Crime in Second Life
Scotland Yard Hunts for Crime in Second Life The Metropolitan Police, with help from experts at Portsmouth University, are looking for crime in Second Life. They're not looking for any particular criminal, though. It seems as if they're just trying to det
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Scotland Yard Hunts for Crime in Second Life
The Metropolitan Police, with help from experts at Portsmouth University, are looking for crime in Second Life. They're not looking for any particular criminal, though. It seems as if they're just trying to determine what sort of crimes, like fraud or money laundering, and how many are being committed in the virtual world.
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