I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be discussing virtual law (and Virtual Law) with the always-engaged and always-engaging crowd at Sophrosyne’s Salon this Saturday, May 10 from 1:00-3:00 Second Life time (Pacific). This is usually a fairly free-form event, and I am looking forward to an active discussion covering many aspects of virtual law from [...]
Pacific Epoch reports that two Chinese virtual item and currency traders were recently arrested. The pair had been plying their trade within Blizzard’s World of Warcraft, operated in China by The9 Limited. Chinese police arrested them after one partner reported the other for unfair revenue distribution. In business since last August, the gold farming operation [...]
Digital rights advocacy group Public Knowledge (“PK”) recently filed an Amicus Curiae (“friend of the court”) brief regarding Blizzard’s copyright claim (.pdf) against MDY Industries, maker of the popular World of Warcarft bot “WoW Glider” (now “MMO Glider”). Although the brief ostensibly supports neither side and is filed “in the interests of preserving the balance [...]
Kristan J. Wheaton, an assistant professor of intelligence studies at Mercyhurst College, recently published a note regarding original research into potential Jihadist use of virtual worlds at Sources and Methods. The findings are far less hyperbolic than the usual coverage of this subject, and seem sound. From Wheaton’s post: A group of five students in [...]
