I think you guys better think again of what you do in those MMORPGS..check this out from the BBC web site...

Virtual theft' leads to arrest http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44238000/jpg/_44238889_habbo203.jpg Habbo Hotel users create a character and can buy furniture

A Dutch teenager has been arrested for allegedly stealing virtual furniture from "rooms" in Habbo Hotel, a 3D social networking website. The 17-year-old is accused of stealing 4,000 euros (£2,840) worth of virtual furniture, bought with real money.
Five 15-year-olds have also been questioned by police, who were contacted by the website's owners.
The six teenagers are suspected of moving the stolen furniture into their own Habbo rooms.
A spokesman for Sulake, the company that operates Habbo Hotel, said: "The accused lured victims into handing over their Habbo passwords by creating fake Habbo websites.
"In Habbo, as in many other virtual worlds, scamming for other people's personal information such as user names has been problematic for quite a while.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/start_quote_rb.gif It is a theft because the furniture is paid for with real money http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/end_quote_rb.gif


Sulake spokesman


"We have had much of this scamming going on in many countries but this is the first case where the police have taken legal action."
Habbo users can create their own characters, decorate their own rooms and play a number of games, paying with Habbo Credits, which they have to buy with real cash.
"It is a theft because the furniture is paid for with real money. But the only way to be a thief in Habbo is to get people's usernames and passwords and then log in and take the furniture.
"We got involved because of an increasing number of sites which are pretending to be Habbo. People might then try and log in and get their details stolen."
Six million people in more than 30 countries play Habbo Hotel each month.
Virtual theft is a growing issue in virtual worlds; in 2005 a Chinese gamer was stabbed to death in a row over a sword in a game.
Shanghai gamer Qiu Chengwei killed player Zhu Caoyuan when he discovered he had sold a "dragon sabre" he had been loaned...


Life is getting stranger every day..

That's friggin ridiculous.

That is ridiculous. I am going to arrest you for virtual theft!! lol

I read about this in the paper today, it's quite ridiculous. He did steal though, it's just that what was stolen wasn't physical. People purchased furniture in the game, and it was stolen from them.

However, are people getting that attached to games? I can't understand (although literally I can) how you can hold something so unimportant in the grand scope of things in such a high regard.

Can this even be considered newsworthy?

You have the right to remain virtually silent.

Anything that you virtually say may be used against you in a virtual court of law.

You have the right to a virtual attorney.

If you cannot afford one , we will virtually provide one for you.

Do you virtually understand?

This is virtually inane.

^lol
My sister had been saving he money up for years. Then she went and spend something like $300 on this site. Its bloody ridiculous.
But this seems a little mild compared to what is happening on a site called Second Life. (I think)
According to BBC news there are rooms or places or something like that where your character can take off its clothes. What is even more disgusting is that these characters can be made to be pretty much any age.

god.. i feel sorry for people who play runescape and actually PAY $5 for a month....

the second paragraph is friggin hilarious!

That's both the stupidest and funniest thing I've heard.

This was posted on Z28.. it's more and more true every day..

http://www.z28.com/forum/showthread.php?t=112522

life is starnge already in the first place..

oh god, yeah Second Life.

the stuff that goes on there, you don't even want to know.
And people pay serious cash in that thing, some people honest-to-god rely on it for their monthly INCOME, as in not having a JOB! it's ridiculous, they design clothes and houses and sell them and virtual real estate and everything it's nuts, but the best part is people will go in there and do this thing called "griefing" which is basically another way of saying "they go and F-it up". because in second life you can literally do ANYTHING, so one person designed themself to be a godzilla sized woody the woodpecker and destroyed several virtual blocks of a city! and another group actually recreated the 9/11 attacks in a virtual new york! it's absolutely insane. That and there's digital penises flying everywhere, good lord. But people complain and lawsuits are made because real money is tied in with the game, so when somebody goes and shoots a digital rocket launcher into your newly developed model home, or someone straps a car bomb to that new lamborghini you just bought (virtually) you lose money because you spent real cash to buy that stuff, it's just crazy that people do that.

any of you guys wanna play too and steal some furnitures as well?
it sounds fun...

that'll teach them... if i was gonna spend money on furniture it better frickin' be REAL furniture and not just "virtual furniture"