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> Tokens are property Why/how? If someone "steals" "my" "property" in an online game, I don't get to call the real-world cops on them. Why should it be any dif

• throwaway290 2y ago
  > Why/how? If someone "steals" "my" "property" in an online game, I don't get to call the real-world cops on them. Why should it be any different when you dress up your game in a bunch of finance words? I thought the main difference is that game is operated by a legal entity that is a game company so cops will tell you to complain to Epic or whoever. Imagine if some game is not operated by a single legal entity and becomes popular enough that many people routinely lose all savings etc, maybe justice system can start intervening in such cases. But anyway in this case there are so many things wrong about prosecuting one thief for outthieving another thief, I don't even know what is the logic.
• fragmede 2y ago
  yeah, you can. theft online is recognized by police agencies. it's an old but there was this theft in 2007, in RuneScape that resulted in real world penalties for the thieves. https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/klevi5/in_2012_the_dutch_supreme_court_ruled_that/ https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/klevi5/in_2012_t...