Virtual World Law - update
Posted in Legal on October 19, 2007 | No Comments »
The following virtual world legal update was posted by Terra Nova.
It details the main points of the Bragg V Linden case.
Archive for the ‘Legal’ Category
Some Recent links
Posted in Fraud, Legal, News, Software Vulnerability on October 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Online games and the law
Online games and fraud
Hackers freeze web sites of Game Money Trading Firms
Virtual Police Department
Posted in Crime, Legal, News on July 3, 2007 | No Comments »
The Vancouver Police Department are opening a presence in Second Life this Thursday. According to the article in the Vancouver Sun the aim is to recruit new officers in Second Life but the project also realizes that cyber crime is a growing concern and virtual worlds are part of that trend.
Jailing griefers
Posted in Crime, Legal on June 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The excellent commentator on Second Life — Gwyneth Llewelyn recently published a piece in her blog entitled: From Welfare State to Laissez-Faire Capitalism. The blog itself is always worth reading for the insight it provides relating to the history and future of Second Life. Of interest to MetaSecurity was the section of the article relating [...]
Light Reading
Posted in Crime, Fraud, Legal, Money Laundering, Uncategorized on June 18, 2007 | No Comments »
In my crawlings around the internet, I often come across a number of interesting documents which are related to my research, both into virtual worlds in general and sometimes into potential crimimal activities in them. And with the idea in mind that there is far too little interaction between the research community and professionals sometimes, [...]
MIT & Media Lab - comments of note
Posted in Crime, Fraud, Legal, Software Vulnerability on June 17, 2007 | No Comments »
IBM & MIT Media Lab hosted a conference on virtual worlds on 15 June - the title of the conference was, “Where Business, Society, Technology & Policy Converge”. As part of the conference Colin Parris, VP for Digital Convergence outlined, amongst other things, what he thinks is essential in creating future viable virtual platforms. [...]
Information Sharing and the China challenge
Posted in Legal on June 15, 2007 | No Comments »
A recent interview with Philip Rosedale in Information Week by Mitch Wagner ranged over a number of Second Life topics including the issue of legal jurisdiction. Linden Lab has recently been linked with the FBI, regarding the issue of on-line gaming, and with unnamed German Law Enforcement authorities regarding the unfounded allegations of child [...]
