The games online are often the origin of love stories that end up in serious relationships in real life, but also in other activities are less romantic setting for the celebration of funerals, theft of property or the sale of virtual items and money change in real money.
In Japan just taken an unusual event: a woman of 43 years could go to jail for destroying the character of her virtual ex-husband.
The woman and the victim had a romantic relationship in the game Maple Story to the man without warning decided to end the virtual marriage. The woman, offended, decided to take revenge, accessed the account of his ex-partner, and removed the character. It has now been charged for hacking and faces a possible sentence of five years’ imprisonment or a fine of $ 5000.
A few days ago there was a similar case in Holland, where two youths of 14 and 15 years respectively, were sentenced to 360 hours of community service for forcing another boy, through threats and beatings, to deliver several items in a virtual game . As in the Netherlands, the virtual objects are property, is considered a theft.