I'm not supposing this stuff idly as a great what if. People are buying and selling these goods for real money (which is valued at what people value it at too), and when they are actually robbed in a way unassociated with game dynamics they seek restitution if the police won't help them they will help themselves. People have died over the theft of virtual goods. That people spend cash, sweat, and blood in the market necessarily says it's a real market. Shrugging your shoulders because it's hard and forcing it into realms of black markets because people are valuing bits in a computer, is not going to help things.

Your objects value are determined by what they are valued at. They are worth what people are willing to pay for them. With the shut down of a game service the objects would become devoid of value because their value is only as part of the game which no longer existed, effectively the game shutdown would cause an economic collapse of the value items of the game.

If the MMO simply stole your stuff because they wanted to, you should be allowed to sue them for the value of the items. Somebody might well give you real money for those actual items. But, if they shut down, all the items are without value at all because nobody would pay you anything for them even if transferring the items from one deactivated account to another were actually possible.

Add to that the fact that you can sell many of those items for real cash money. And that when property rights are denied there are real and serious problems.

There have been cases where Person A borrows a sword from Person B. Person A sells said sword on Ebay for $500. Person B contacts the police. Police say person B has no recourse. Person B kills Person A.

It's really a problem that such things are not rightly classed as property under current law just because of the digital nature of the good.

Dead people do not take offense or breath.

Yeah, there's a number of granfalloon accounts too where people have hundreds of thousands of friends. These will strongly lower the averages.

If the key is written down and they find it, that's evidence. If it's not then you apparently according to the Supreme Court you still don't have a 5th amendment right there. You have to have forgot it, or never knew it to begin with. Or perhaps claim a 5th amendment right to not incriminate yourself by knowing the actual password itself (which could be successful but I've never heard of anybody having argued that). Frankly, if you have the password to somebody elses system and it has illegal data, then the fact that you know the password, in and of itself, is an admission to some compliance or trust between you and certain parties. As such, one should necessarily have a 5th amendment right to the password itself if not to the data concealed by the password.

No. It's speed traveling through vacuum would be a hair below the maximum speed. Depending on the index of refraction of what it's traveling through. Since empty space only has a bunch of virtual particles in it, it would go nearly at C, but not exactly C. It would slow down a bit because there's no such thing as a real vacuum. There's not fewer virtual particles in various regions and as such vacuum space would simply have a very small index of refraction. Generally light does slow down with regard to the medium but not due to the distance. Traveling through a mile of water it would go the same speed as traveling through a foot of water, but both of these would be slower than if it were traveling though air or vacuum.

You're obviously going to have tared the measuring against air. Making it .9mg above the weight of the air. But, if there is no air, it would weight .9.

And how much of a vacuum can you really get in this universe? With all the virtual particles popping in and out all the time. It seems you'd need to be as weakly interactive as a neutrino to avoid being slowed down just by spacetime and all it's particles kicking up all the time. Considering vacuum space is going to have something in it, I wouldn't be that amazed if neutrinos just travel at closer to actual C than light does.

Not just 68, but our IDs are like 1500 apart. We likely registered within a few days of each other. *shrug*

Nice to have em back.