www.gamespot.com/all/news...85939.html (http://www.gamespot.com/all/news/news_6085939.html)

Kinda interesting for folks like us.

You've got to figure it'd happen once someone cared enough to spend lawyer money on the problem.

unable to view at work, anyone want to give me the cliffnotes? or copy paste?

Online gamer in China sues over virtual theft


An online gamer in China has successfully sued a game developer after his virtual belongings were stolen by a hacker.

According to a recent Reuters report, a Chinese court has recently ordered an online games company to return virtual belongings to a player whose game account was looted by a hacker. The 24-year old gamer, Li Hongchen, had spent two years and some 10,000 yuan (US$1,210) on pay-as-you-go cards playing the online game Hongyue, or Red Moon, before his account was hacked in February.






Li asked Beijing Arctic Ice Technology Development Co to identify the hacker who stole his virtual property, which included a stockpile of bio-chemical weapons, but was told that the company could not give out a player's private details. The company also argued that the virtual property existed only in the game, and essentially amounted to little more than data as far as its operating companies were concerned. Li also enjoyed no success with the police, and so he took his case to court demanding 10,000 yuan (US$1,210) in compensation.

Yesterday Beijing's Chaoyang District People's Court ruled that Beijing Arctic Ice should restore Li's lost items, finding it liable because of the loopholes in its server programs that made it easy for hackers to get in.

$1,210 for 2 years of gaming?! Thats $50 per month by my count...I'll never complain about EverQuest's fees ever again!

$1,210 for 2 years of gaming?! Thats $50 per month by my count...I'll never complain about EverQuest's fees ever again!

Who says that was just the amount he had to pay to play the game? It might be money he used to buy items/money in that game =/


www.magelo.com/eq_view_pr...num=129440 (http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=129440)

the article did. He purchased "pay as you go cards" to equal that ammount.