UK Appeals court state RuneScape gold counts as property and can be stolen
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by hyperhello
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What do you do with RuneScape gold? Do you spend it at a store? What if the weapons are defective? Can you rob or murder players for their gold? What kind of nutty lawsuits can happen now?
by Habgdnv
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Does that mean that finally some Ubisoft executive can have jail time when they shut down the servers and I no longer have access to my fancy hat I bought few years ago? The case would be even more clean because there would be real world money involved. - Just thinking...
by throwaway89201
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Fourteen years after the Supreme Court of the Netherlands found the same in a criminal case against teenagers, also about Runescape items (in 2007), establishing that in-game items can be considered property and therefore can be stolen [1]. Specifically theft with assault and threats, all committed jointly.
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