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Women are subject to sexual harassment in online g-> 0

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petur

on Sunday March 20 2011, @11:39AM

petur writes "Female players in the MMORPG ‘EVE Online‘ are subject to sexual violence from male players. The violence does not only take play within the virtual world, as atleast one case has been reported to the Icelandic police where a male player went uninvited to a female player home.

Anna Bragadóttir, a business major student at the University of Bifröst, wrote her final paper about the communications between male and female students in virtual games with a special interest in the game EVE Online. Anna reports that female players become subject constant sexual harrasment within the virtual world as soon as their have confirmed their sex by using voice-chat-communications with other players. Virtual firms within the game exploit female players for their virtual-marketing purposes and they get constant gifts and offers from other players."
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Should copyright be perpetual?

Submitted by QRDeNameland on Sunday May 20 2007, @01:27PM

QRDeNameland writes "In a NY Times Op-Ed piece today, Mark Helprin argues for what amounts to perpetual copyright, and that anything less is essentially an unfair public taking of property. According to Helprin, "No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can exist for treating with special disfavor the work of the spirit and the mind." Well, I can think of quite of few arguments for such a case, unfortunately the NY Times did not see fit to publish any contrary view for equal time."