Virtual Mugging with Player-Bots Leads to Man’s Arrest
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A man in Japan has just been arrested for virtual mugging. Really. He set up a player-bot - a virtual virtual gamer, if you will - and had his player-bot beat up other online gamers’ virtual characters, and steal their lunch money.
Ok, I made that last bit up. It wasn’t their lunch money. It was far more important items that the player-bot stole, like the “Earring of Wisdom” and the “Shield of Nightmare”, but I figured that unless you were a gamer you’d think that I made those up.
According to British game consultant Ren Reynolds, “There’s an ongoing war between people who make bots and games companies. And making real money out of virtual worlds is getting bigger.”
The fellow who was arrested in Japan, a Chinese national, was attempting to make his own real money by auctioning off the …
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vladsinger
January 15th, 2008
at 5:10pm
Do you mind explaining why your “continue reading” link goes to a spam site filled w/ crap?
Matt Hartley
January 15th, 2008
at 6:15pm
I can answer that. Look at the date of the article - 2005. So it is reasonable to assume that the domain aunty-spam.com has expired and the user has opted to allow it to lapse. From there, it looks like a squatter has picked up on it.
Hope this clears things up.