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Criminal Law in Virtual Worlds

By Corey Rayburnyung

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As noted on Volokh Conspiracy, Orin Kerr has posted a very interesting article on SSRN about regulating virtual worlds.  He is very much in favor of a hands-off approach:When does conduct by an online player in a virtual world game trigger liability for a real-world crime? In the future, will new criminal laws be needed to account for new social harms that occur in virtual worlds? This short essay considers both questions. Part I argues that existing laws regulate virtual worlds with little or no regard to the virtual reality they foster. Criminal law tends to follow the physical rather than the virtual: it looks to what a person does rather than what the victim virtually perceives. This dynamic greatly narrows the role of criminal law in virtual worlds...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on March 13, 2008 (boomark / email).

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