Yawn. Get off your soap box would ya? You sound like a real ass.

as they say ... the road to hell is paved with good intentions

You're probably a bit naive yourself. Having worked with journalists a bit I can tell you that very few of them report stories that they dig into and get facts. Usually hey have an agenda and tailor the presentation of a story to fit it.

This story is a great tool for someone with the agenda of 'videogames are destroying our youth'. Just spin it so that the 'poor malleable boys doing this to that victim are usually so nice and cuddly, but since they started playing this game...'.

Truth is not something journalists care much about. It's the story. You see this every day in the news. Remeber when you last read a story with a subject you know **** about? Remember how wrong the journalist got it? Now understand that is true for just about every story.

Incorrect. If no EULA violations can be found that happen 'in game' then CCP opens themselves to litigation.

In other words if they cut off a scammer just because he scams within the confines of the EULA just because they have a beef with them then he can legally SUE them.

I'm too cool to be a Code alt. I personally abhor racism. Especially from some nonhack ex military that makes the uniform look like a disgrace. Does that make sense? Keep defending the racist. Because it's the country that we fought for right? Code members; goons; GOP: dems ect included right? But resorting to racist slurs what a pos.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Right right. I see compaines that are out to make profits swinging ban hammers to and from against people that don't break EULA's. Get real chief. Anonymity is the word of the day. No Eula Breach no nada happen. Like I said Grey. If they take any side without a EULA breach they run into litigation issues. No business opens themselves to litigation without having there bum covered. In this case Erotica 1 is covered.

Wrong, racist. he refused to speak with or listen to one of the hosts upon being told he was an african canadian and repeatly refered to him with the N word. Racist and in the UK crinimal. If he was british I would have made a complaint to the police here with a link to the sound could as evidence. People have gone to prision here in the UK for less then that. You yanks may tolerate that behaviour, but its still disgusting.

I don't see how anyone with a straight face can use the words torture, victim, etc in relation to a game that you voluntarily play, where the items and actions aren't real, and you can leave at any time you want. You can block/ignore anyone you want, close down TS any time. All that tells me is the person saying this lives a life that must be privileged and free of any actual problems nearing the definition of victim or torture. I don't know about the guy in question, but if singing a song on TS or losing all my spaceship stuff ranked among the big deals in life, my life would be much better than it is now.

The appeal to the female relative is strange as well, like some kind of shaming based on sexism? I don't know. Should I inflict this on a lady, they are such delicate creatures, they may have hysterics or something? I don't tell my grandmother some of the things that goes on in the bedroom which I'm pretty sure would freak her the hell out. It's not something she would understand, and probably eve she wouldn't understand either, so what is it supposed to mean exactly.

Let me ask you something: what is a billion isk to you?

To me, its a nicely fit T3 or two. Or maybe a blops. I've eaten those types of losses before. And honestly, so has much of the eve community.

When I lost that much isk, I didn't cry, or yell, bang a desk, or threaten someones mother in impotent rage. To me, someone that demonstrates these symptoms has a problem. Maybe even a hardcore addiction as you say, idk.

The point is, such a person is not well adjusted, and you can't base policy for a community of hundreds of thousands based on the response of the mentally unstable fringe. Just my 2 isk.

The fact that a billion isk can make someone loose their pride is no less a sign of mental instability or hardcore addiction.

We can take pity on the victim, we can sympathize with him, and perhaps we should but in the final analysis this problem begins and ends in the victims mind. You and I are powerless to fix it. If we could, it would be a wonderful thing, not just for the victim, or the Eve community, but for all mankind. But we can't.

Maybe CCP should put a big flashing warning sign on the character select screen that says:

WARNING THIS IS JUST A GAME. PLEASE DON'T HURT YOURSELF. WE LOVE YOU FOR WHO YOU ARE.

A racist, homophobic, who threatens to commit murder is scammed. Ya he is a real innocent victim here...

Depending on you municipality, it can be a contributing factor, actually.

Except that juries don't decide sentencing, the judge does that.

LOLwat, victim of an video game scam of imaginary money makes RL death threats, displaying racist and homophobic tendencies. Yes, i believe I do know which way the jury will swing in this case. It's a no brainer really, unless said jury has trouble differentiating between RL and virtual worlds.. What's more when the supposed 'victim' can walk away with just the click of a mousebutton, and maybe 2 more to ensure he never has to come into contact with people he thinks aren't nice to him.

The "victim" broke the law (EULA) when he threatend to kill someone. It's not a gray area like what E1 did. Yet no one is mobing up with pitch forks for his head. Guy was a jerk, greedy for money and violent. Let him rot.

Since there are no rules forbidding this behaviour, why should he be banned? Because you don't like this behaviour?

BTW ,behaviour like this has happened throughout the 10+ year history of EVE. As and when CCP decides an individual has stepped over the line, they will take action. This action is not determined nor enforced by a subset of players who don't like said behaviour, or do not find it acceptable according to their moral standards.

... you really are that stupid/ignorant, aren't you?

Sociopathy as a term was eliminated recently, rolled into antisocial personality disorder.

It happened a month ago.

You already have your answer. But Ripard Teg wanted a new one, so he decided to start a fuss about it.

Tell that to the pizza ordering guy. Didn't that take about 2 hours?

Why do you keep calling retards "victims"?

and you know in real worlds there are real victims suffering from real tortures and comparing them to a grown man crying over space-pixels is A REAL INSULT to them

You know you are losing when someone called 'Space Juden' needs to add the same bs others have been vommiting up 24/7 since the thread started.

NOT FORCED. ASKED. KINDLY FOR THAT MATTER.


D.

Please don't... This thread doesn't need anymore internet lawyer trolls >.>

Actually, that would be my pet cockatiel I named Enyo. She's sitting happily on a perch nearby, beak-grinding away without a care in the world. If EVE died right now, these forums and this thread along with it, everyone would have something else to do, something else to play, and would get over in a few days at most.

TL;DR - speak for yourself.

Virtual crime or in-game crime refers to a virtual criminal act that takes place in a massively multiplayer online game, usually an MMORPG. The huge time and effort invested into such games can lead online "crime" to spill over into real world crime, and even blur the distinctions between the two. Some countries have introduced special police investigation units to cover such "virtual crimes". South Korea is one such country and looked into 22,000 cases in the first six months of 2003

Known cases:

In South Korea, where the number of computer game players is massive, some have reported the emergence of gangs and mafia, where powerful players steal and demand that beginners give them virtual money for their "protection".

In China, Qiu Chengwei was sentenced to life in prison after stabbing and killing fellow The Legend of Mir 3 gamer Zhu Caoyuan. In the game Qiu had lent Zhu a powerful sword (a "dragon sabre"), which Zhu then went on to sell on eBay for 7,200 Yuan (about -ú473 or US$870). With no Chinese laws covering the online dispute, there was nothing the police could do.

In the game The Sims Online a 17-year old boy going by the in-game name "Evangeline", was discovered to have built a cyber-brothel, where customers would pay sim-money for minutes of cybersex. This led to the cancellation of his accounts but no legal action, mainly because he was above the age of consent.

The term "virtual mugging" was coined when some players of Lineage II used bots to defeat other player's characters and take their items. In Japan, the Kagawa prefectural police arrested a Chinese foreign exchange student on 16 August 2005 following the reports of virtual mugging and the online sale of the stolen items

It was reported on 14 November 2007 that a Dutch teenager had been arrested for allegedly stealing virtual furniture from "rooms" in 3D social-networking website Habbo Hotel. The teenagers involved were accused of creating fake Habbo websites in order to lure users into entering their account details, which would then be used to steal virtual furniture bought with real money totaling Gé¼4000.

Nah education on the topc is good. Im german myself, i had relative in the war. We had 2 years in school on the topc alone.
Its just from my cultural background that the topic shouldnt be taken lightly.

Sohkar is on Teamspeak now!

http://www.twitch.tv/kristallnachte/

How dare he not be the victim everyone demands that he be.

The nerve!

i just got off the TS with erotica 1 and i did this to try to put a end to all this stuff people are putting out there and get how i felt about everything. I think all you people need to drop it. the "bonus room" happened over a month ago. Ask yourself why is it now just coming out now? if it wasnt for the article written about it no one would know or care. I know some of you said its not about erotica 1 or myself and you maybe right but what is it about then that people got scam it happens all the time even in RL. I got scammed and made an fool of myself in the process he did not ask me to do anything that would personalize me to people i dont know other then by my voice. Scamming and bonus rooms are not the problem until it makes someone hurt then selfs or others til then you may not agree with mine bumping or scamming then dont do it. Just because you dont agree with it doesnt make it a crime