TL:DR - Time is money. And what people want have real value.


Honestly, what I do not understand is why people do not get this.

Citations and examples required.

The court ruled that:

- Virtual items have value in virtual of the effort and time invested in obtaining them
- The value in Virtual items is recognised by those that play the game (including the defendents who went to the trouble to take them)
- The Virtual items were under the exclusive control of the player GÇô who was relieved of this control

The court agreed that under the RuneScape terms and conditions, the virtual items in the game are owned by the publisher of RuneScape who grant the players have a GÇÿright to useGÇÖ. However it concluded that the items in question were under the GÇÿexclusive dominionGÇÖ of the victim until they were removed from them, hence the position of RuneScape being owners of the items (from the perspective of intellectual property / contract law) is GÇÿnot relevantGÇÖ in the context of the criminal case under consideration.Here the court made defence to money GÇô which is the property of the sate but can still be stolen.

For the moment, this matter is restricted both to The Netherlands and to the specific matter of theft. However in China and South Korea there have been similar types of cases which have made it to the courts, in these judges have displayed a general trend to grant more rights to players than are stated in their contract and to see digital objects as being akin to physical property in certain important respects. The fact that a case in the EU has got to such a senior court and has ruled along the same lines is likely to carry some weight with other cases that may occur in the West.

For details of the Chinese, Korean and other cases see tVPNGÇÖs white paper on Virtual Objects and Public Policy which examines both cases and statute in detail.

http://www.virtualpolicy.net/wp-virtual-items-public-policy.html

Actually, I am using my brain but I believe you simply are too ignorant to understand other people's opinions, thus that can be seen in your first reply where you basically state that all that don't think like you are daydreaming.

So right now, I am choosing out of my free time to write you a reply. It is done out of free will in my free time and to me this has absolutely no value. There is no codex of human behavior anywhere that states that each time I do something that it is out of my free will, that I must apply work time multiplied by my work value.

But I believe that people like you even think that each time they take a dump, that the turd is actually worth real life money, due to like you mentioned, taking a crap time (work) is multiplied by whatever you consider your work value is. Heh, I am sure the turds you drop that have the size of a banana must be worth gold to you.