Sometimes you’ve just gotta shake your head. Maybe it’s no longer big news when one guy kills another in real life because the victim unwisely sold off a dragon saber from Legends of Mir belonging to the murderer. That’s just a psychotic episode waiting to happen, and it happened to be over a video game.
But check out what a local law professor had to say about it:
Wang Zongyu, an associate law professor at Beijing’s Renmin University of China, told the paper: “The armour and swords in games should be deemed as private property as players have to spend money and time for them.”
Yes, this is all happening in China. And here’s a law professor in an ostensibly Communist country, arguing for rights to private property in cyberspace.
Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chain mail.