{"id":335,"date":"2007-11-14T12:14:49","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T12:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=335"},"modified":"2007-12-13T12:31:20","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T12:31:20","slug":"theft-in-the-virtual-world-a-step-in-the-right-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/theft-in-the-virtual-world-a-step-in-the-right-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Theft in the virtual world &#8230; a step in the right direction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/7094764.stm\">A teenager has been arrested for stealing virtual furniture in a virtual hotel in a virtual world<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.habbo.com\/\">Habbo<\/a>).\u00a0 The furniture was paid for with real money, however.\u00a0 This is another step in the realisation of virtual reality.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astraea.net\/holonics\/magazine\/2007\/20070731.html#it\">Earlier this year we heard of a real world intellectual property litigation over virtual businesses in a virtual world<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/\">Second Life<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Obviously a crime was committed and not a virtual crime, a real crime.\u00a0 And there should be recompense.\u00a0 But what is interesting is to see the expansion and increasing sophistication of virtual worlds because they provide an outlet for human creativity, ingenuity and socialisation that consumes very few real world resources.\u00a0 On a per user basis some energy is consumed to run the ICT hardware, but there&#8217;s no travelling to and from the shops in energy consuming vehicles, no industrial manufacturing to produce clothes, houses, and stuff that satisfies users.\u00a0 Perhaps these virtual world&#8217;s will engage our mind and attention enough that humanity can reduce its consumption footprint while expanding its intellectual stimulation &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A teenager has been arrested for stealing virtual furniture in a virtual hotel in a virtual world (Habbo).\u00a0 The furniture was paid for with real money, however.\u00a0 This is another step in the realisation of virtual reality.\u00a0 Earlier this year we heard of a real world intellectual property litigation over virtual businesses in a virtual &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/theft-in-the-virtual-world-a-step-in-the-right-direction\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Theft in the virtual world &#8230; a step in the right direction?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,26,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-ict","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-5p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}