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[Previous entry: "Don't cite Wikipedia"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Flashblock updated for Firefox 1.5."] 12/15/2005 Entry: "CEO of Second Life turns players over to feds." CEO of Second Life turns players over to feds. If I'm reading this correctly, the CEO of the company that owns the Second Life non-game MMO is upset someone programmed a self-replicating in-game "bomb" using Second Life's LSL language to crash one of his virtual parties. He claims this is the equivalent of a Denial of Service attack and proudly turned in the names of the players to the FBI. If this is true, then this is really despicable. This is like calling the cops because some online player killed your character and took your sword of hurting or something. Seriously, get a life. If some online object created in a game ends in litigation or criminal charges, then things have gone a little too far. I really hope this is a hoax. If not, this could turn out to be a bad precendent for the video game industry, all because some CEO's ego was bruised.
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