> I'll be at your door at 3am in the morning with a bunch of flowers or a cake I think I would have a problem with that. I don't know you and I'm fairly sure y

> I'll be at your door at 3am in the morning with a bunch of flowers or a cake I think I would have a problem with that. I don't know you and I'm fairly sure you're not my type. ;-) > That some idiot pays money for something does not mean it has value. Au Contraire. The value of anything is precisely determined by what you can get some idiot to pay for it. The category mistake that everyone seems to make in this case is to regard virtual goods as 'goods' when in fact what is being provided is a service. The persistence storage and access rights to manipulate the object in question are services that cost some money to provide; and they are what is being provided.