Just after we discussed yet another bad situation involving bringing real world laws into virtual worlds involving World of Warcraft , it looks like there's an update on another such case we discussed last year .
In this case, it was a dispute between two members of Second Life, one of whom had "copied" items made by another and started selling them.
This seemed perfectly ridiculous, since being a virtual world where there is no scarcity, nothing was...
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