Woman jailed after virtual ex slay

I think the point is identity theft, not the actual killing of the character.

Which is what they fail to mention. Unfortunately for him, he GAVE HER the password, and the log-in. Knowing Nexon (and I do, very well, played many of their past games such as Nexus, Shattered Galaxy, Baram, etc) they will probably ban his account for character sharing. I can't imagine that the charges could stick, considering that he knowingly and willingly gave her the password so that she could log in (which she did).

I know a few people that have gotten married in game, and then IRL to the same person (met through the game). I know many more that are married in a game, and have crazy delusions that somehow they will actually end up married IRL, when the other party is clearly uninterested. Hell, most of the people I know met through the Nexon game Nexus (a game they have since sold to another company). The company provides a way to marry a character, with certain benefits (instant teleportation to wherever the wife/husband is at the time, etc) and harsh penalties for divorce (losing character stats). It's no wonder that delusional people would eventually take it too far and do something insane like deleting someones character.

Again though, I think it would set a dangerous precedent (in Japan) if any charges actually stick here. If you give someone your login information, and then they log in, there is no way it should be considered a crime. Now if she had stolen the information, it would be a different story, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.

The moral of the story is that you should never share your character information with anyone. Even though Nexon goes to great pains to teach players this (On Nexus, there was a monthly quiz about password/ID security, as well as a few other things) there are still plenty of people that share characters, and that pay the consequences for doing so.

Yea seriously, what the fuck did I just read?

lol...I'm with you.

What the balls?

That is the best part of Fable 2. If at any point I decide that I don't like my wife anymore, I can just turn off the safety and slay the bitch. Honestly, I think the Albion is Nirvana.

"I'm glad they don't have virtual weddings in WoW."

you'd be surprised what people do in WoW.

What happens in Azeroth stays in Azeroth.

@Fenix

More like "giving." How else would she have obtained his password and username? Happens all the time when you are happily married in-game or in some cases they give them out just because they're friends and you can ask your buddy to "grind" for you.

Either way this article does hurt my head. How does one murder an avatar?!?!

I believe that the reason they gave for arresting her was 'hacking' into his account and deleting his avatar...the fact that he gave her his information makes it seem like an unwarranted arrest, but whatever.

She logged into his account and deleted his character.

My thoughts exactly.

No, you are not reading it right. "illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data" is what they said she did. Its akin to a hacking charge and has nothing to do with the "murder".

pretty please?

Can we start over?

someone hit the reset button on the NES of life please?

Take out the cartridge that is the universe, and give it a good blowing.

Which makes the younger ones sane? Logic....circuit....failing....

Stupidity.... hotness....

If I give you my bank account information and you use it to access my account and steal all of my money, I still have a case of theft against you.

Also, I don't see what prosecuting the stupid has to do with this. The woman was angry after her husband divorced her without a word of warning, and she's not the type to do something in real life, so she went into the virtual world and hit him there.

I see your point; but your avatar in these games, unlike the money in your bank, is NOT your property. Those are owned by the gaming company that you pay your money to. Hence, selling of your avatar on say EBAY is punishable thru the gaming company... usually a BAN-Hammer. So technically she destroyed MapleStory's intellectual property. His property includes the computer he plays it on and the disk he bought... the character stats, gear, abilities and information is/was never technically his.

He was beyond stupid if he gave out his account info to someone he'd never met in RL... and yeah I know it's my opinion but I can be tolerant of the stupid at my job cuz I HAVE TO BE... but I won't put up with being subjected to their ways if I'm not being paid for it.

If only stupid people didn't come out good looking... I'd love to have somehow bred them out of our gene pool.

Motherfucking right! Hey woman, wheres mah beer?!!!


*burps

*scratches balls

*farts

Oh yea- uh, I mean, chauvenistic/sarcastic pigs.