Digital Property Law [was RE: [MUD-Dev] Selling training]

[Matt Mihaly]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 geoffrey at yorku.ca wrote:

> rayzam wrote:
 
>> Matt Mihaly wrote:
 
>>> If courts treat stealing virtual objects as real crimes, then I
>>> don't see any way they can avoid having to investigate and
>>> prosecute the crimes themselves. I don't see this happening. It'd
>>> be essentially impossible for them. I imagine a cop logging into
>>> Achaea to investigate a crime. He'd get nowhere at all. Further,
>>> given that there can be a _total_ lack of hard evidence in a mud,
>>> I don't see how proof of guilt could be established.
 
> Well - wouldn't the logs be considered pretty good hard evidence,
> considering they would house an exact transcript of the crime?

If logs such as that were kept. We don't keep logs of everybody who
picks something up.

--matt

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