Title: Red Moon
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Keywords: virtual world, China, law
Status: alpha

According to a news story in December 2003, 'a court in Beijing ruled in favour of Li Hongchen who sued the operator of the online game Red Moon after his virtual money and weapons were stolen by a hacker. The court said that because the virtual goods had been acquired using his labour, time, cash and "wisdom", they belonged to him and had real value'.

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Blood on the virtual carpet: tempers flare as 'editor' is thrown out of online town with 80,000 inhabitants, Andrew Gumbel, Independent, January 16, 2004. A report primarily on the expulsion of Peter Ludlow from Sims Online and a short mention of the Red Moon affair.

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