I found this interesting.Follow

Maybe this is what life is like for the Gil Sellers. I mean, this is a little extreme, but it seems like video games are big time buisness and stuff in china..

My friend sent me this today, and i found it interesting, and decided to share it with Bismarck.

@ïrßð®Ñ£ wð®k (10:46 AM) :
Cyber-sabre provokes real death
Wed Mar 30, 2005 4:18 AM GMT
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A Shanghai online game player stabbed to death a competitor who sold his cyber-sword, the China Daily said on Wednesday, creating a dilemma in China where no law exists for the ownership of virtual weapons.

Qiu Chengwei, 41, stabbed competitor Zhu Caoyuan repeatedly in the chest after he was told Zhu had sold his "dragon sabre", used in the popular online game, "Legend of Mir 3", the newspaper said a Shanghai court was told on Tuesday.

"Legend of Mir 3" features heroes and villains, sorcerers and warriors, many of whom wield enormous swords.

Qiu and a friend jointly won their weapon last February, and lent it to Zhu who then sold it for 7,200 yuan (464 pounds), the newspaper said.

Qui went to the police to report the "theft" but was told the weapon was not real property protected by law.

"Zhu promised to hand over the cash but an angry Qui lost patience and attacked Zhu at his home, stabbing him in the left chest with great force and killing him," the court was told.

The newspaper did not specify the charge against Qiu but said he had given himself up to police and already pleaded guilty to "intentional injury".

No verdict has been announced.

More and more online gamers were seeking justice through the courts over stolen weapons and credits, the newspaper said.

"The armour and swords in games should be deemed as private property as players have to spend money and time for them," Wang Zongyu, an associate law professor at Beijing's Renmin University of China, was quoted as saying.

But other experts are calling for caution. "The 'assets' of one player could mean nothing to others as they are by nature just data created by game providers," a lawyer for a Shanghai-based Internet game company was quoted as saying.


So yeah, i just thought i would share that current event with everybody. You know what i think that guy needed to do right?


smoke a doobie

thats it? just one reply??

hmm, i guess nobody cares.. lolz

Dang dude I hope I don't get hunted down by a Jerry for claiming Mee Deggi over them or somethin like that

I'm gettin bars on my windows man...