Comments on: Theft, murder and virtual worlds http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/10/23/theft-and-virtual-worlds/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:29:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: runescape http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/10/23/theft-and-virtual-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-345965 runescape Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:20:40 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=3168#comment-345965 Games like <a href="http://www.runescape-autominer.info" rel="nofollow">Runescape</a> and many others are creating this image to people, well actually not even runescape, because it has somewhat learning value about business and etc, but games like Gta or etc make people crazy and thats sad, because those bastards will get such games banned sooner or later, so people who think cant even play those games anymore Games like Runescape and many others are creating this image to people, well actually not even runescape, because it has somewhat learning value about business and etc, but games like Gta or etc make people crazy and thats sad, because those bastards will get such games banned sooner or later, so people who think cant even play those games anymore

]]> By: Baby Furniture http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/10/23/theft-and-virtual-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-345457 Baby Furniture Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:10:08 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=3168#comment-345457 Good post. Have bookmarked your blog and will surely come back. Good post. Have bookmarked your blog and will surely come back.

]]> By: mathewi http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/10/23/theft-and-virtual-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-343612 mathewi Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:08:57 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=3168#comment-343612 Good point, Eric. Good point, Eric.

]]> By: Eric Rice http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/10/23/theft-and-virtual-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-343611 Eric Rice Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:46:25 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=3168#comment-343611 A good book to read is "Halting State"... that said, what's the difference between finding a way to instantly steal my mana in Warcraft vs. stealing source code from Blizzard Entertainment? Hack some virtual stuff on the Xbox and I think Microsoft will be calling.<br><br>The only issue I have with stories like these is that it's cuter to report the 'omg he stole my virtual bunny slippers!!1!' than the fact that virtual places (read: game worlds) are part of a multi-billion dollar industry that requires strong security.<br><br>Hack it enough, people won't pay to play, and that usually affects this: <a href="http://finance.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:ATVI">http://finance.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=N...</a> A good book to read is “Halting State”… that said, what's the difference between finding a way to instantly steal my mana in Warcraft vs. stealing source code from Blizzard Entertainment? Hack some virtual stuff on the Xbox and I think Microsoft will be calling.

The only issue I have with stories like these is that it's cuter to report the 'omg he stole my virtual bunny slippers!!1!' than the fact that virtual places (read: game worlds) are part of a multi-billion dollar industry that requires strong security.

Hack it enough, people won't pay to play, and that usually affects this: http://finance.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=N...

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