EVE General Discussion

He's talking about hacking, account theft, that kind of thing. I'm fine with that being a criminal offence. Kind-of surprised it isn't already.

I guess it's hard to quantify the actual damage done, for example.

Say you have a rare ship in your hangar, someone hacks your EVE account, undocks and self destructs, how would you quantify the damage?

Saying you 'bought' that ship in a 'virtual world' with 1 Trillion ISK 'fake money' that 'in theory' is worth 25,000$?

If he played eve he would soon learn what real politics is all about not to mention what real scams are.

a game where you can lose everything that has took years upon years to accumulate to a scammer in a few seconds, he would probably be taking ccp to the European court of human rights for the mental distress inflicted upon him.

One has to assume they are talking about activities outside of the games designed content. If theft, destruction of property are encouraged and supported game play by design then it would not be a criminal activity. This is most certainly only intended for misdeeds conducted outside of the games EULA (IE Hacking, Account Theft, exploits) etc.

Well

After a quick check elsewhere, what he is after is Hackers and Gold Scammers / Sellers (Mainly because they use hacked accounts, stolen credit cards and break EULA)

That is all well and good as it should be

BUT!

Being a British politician and the total lack of digital savvy in 99.99% of all the rest of the UK politicians

The dogs dinner of a mess that his Anti-Hacking / Anti Scamming bill would become after it had wended its way through Parliament is only to be imagined, I shudder at the prospect

It would be as bad as the 'Dangerous Dog' act which instead of saying prosecute the owners of 'Dangerous Dogs' instead attempted to define that a 'Dangerous Dog' was a breed of dog that does not actually officially exist, then have them all impounded and put down!!!

I call it a publicity stunt.

Any publicity is good publicity, even if it's dumb and disconnected with reality.

He might as well proposed a law that would force everyone to wear pink hats on Thursdays and it would produce the same effect.

But that's ok, because when they're at less than optimal we can hit them the hardest.

There are lots of MMO players who get scammed and are sour for it. Usually they don't have legislative power.

Anyways, I don't think in-game assets are considered assets at all by any government, but even if they are they would belong to the game company and not the individual.

Stopped reading right here:

It covers anything that involves you accessing ~stuff~ on any computer system where you're not authorised to be accessing it.

The same story was on the Guardian's website and was horribly written. It was only when the author responded to comments that it became vaguely clear that she understood the crook in question meant "hacking" and not in-game actions.