Do Real World Laws Apply In Virtual Worlds?

Courtesy Techdirt  Thu, 04/24/2008 - 18:07

Back in 2003 people began realizing that the growth of various "virtual worlds" was going to raise certain questions about how real world laws applied to virtual worlds.

However, there's been little effort by the legal community to take a serious look at the question. So, we've had story after story after story after story after after story of upset users within virtual worlds trying to make use of real world laws...

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