The law's rough edges: Virtual goods and virtual environments

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Filed under: Culture, Opinion, Second Life, Legal, Virtual worlds

As we go around and around the media-circle associated with virtual worlds, people start bringing up virtual governments, virtual law, and virtual lawyering. And you know what? That's all a bit rubbish, really. That's the sort of thing that keeps us going around in the same media wading pool year after year.

Essentially what it boils down to is that some people seem to get the confused notion that, because of the use of a single technology, our whole legal and/or governmental systems need to be replicated and recreated from snuff just to deal with what people are doing. Why this should happen with virtual environments when no other human technology has ever required this, is really quite the bizarre notion.

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