Thursday, October 23, 2008

This is Nuts and Kind of Awesome. Revenge in the Virtual World: Woman Kills Ex-Husband's Online Avatar

I don't play in the virtual world and to be honest, I don't really understand it.

But this I can understand: You get pissed off because you're getting a divorce, what feels like out of the blue, so you break into your now ex-husband's online account and kill off his online avatar on Second Life.

Although, the Japanese woman who comitted virtual murder went to jail for illegal access to a computer and manipulating electronic data, this is still kind of awesome.

It sounds like she wouldn't dare plan or execute a murder in real life but hey why not get your anger out in some way shape/form and stick it to his online avatar. I think it is kind of awesome.

Not that I could ever break into someone's computer or would ever manipulate electronic data (computers and I have a friendly loving relationship but not too deep; this is kind of bad ass and awesome.

For the people I know it would be like deleting their MySpace or Facebook account but not really as good as a story or entering. I like it being his whole avatar, a representation of him.

Read the full article here.

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