Virtual murder?
Police in Tokyo have charged a 43-year-old piano teacher with illegally accessing a computer system and manipulating electronic data after she logged on to a popular interactive video game and killed the virtual husband who divorced her without warning.
She used his password to do it and that is what made it criminal, police said.
"I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning. That made me so angry," an official quoted her as telling investigators.
-- Lance Murray
Was it a "virtual password" of a virtual husband she used? Does that make it a "virtual crime"? Will she spend time in a "virtual jail," convicted by a "virtual jury"? Guess I don't understand all this "virtual news."
Posted by: bj | October 23, 2008 at 09:38 PM