I think this is a very good move, in order of commerce this is just great mass-individualisation. Now the techies at ICANN are playing the same trick those commercial dudes have been playing on all of us the last 10yrs. I just say let start introducing first name TLD's soon. The.Marvelous.Mighty.Marcel sounds like a great homepage to me :-) *puts sarcasm sign up for a second* I mean, we can not do that, but then it's just a matter of waiting till the first folks are gonna register their firstname as a trademark and via that way register the TLD. Chaos is upon us, I really think so. Tho I think registering the .sex TLD and .porn TLD will be very profitable for those that can afford the startup costs for that right now. I honestly think we should start some online petition against this.

Message from the netherlands, and this has been in the news for a couple of days over here as well.
The i aint going into whether or legal system is good, if our priorities are screwed up, whether our sentences are too high or too low, but just a little feedback from the dutch sources.
please dont hold me for not using the proper words for everything, i will try to explain this as good as I can.
The sentence the 2 boys got was for stealing property with violence.
The motivation of the judge was that like with real-life property you had to go thru some kind of effort to obtain these items and being able to use them afterwards, therefor it is property and had some kind of value(ingame gold, status, emotional)
His motivation for calling it theft was that the boy who got beaten and threatened wasnt able to use the "property" after this, saying his property wasnt within reach for him and therefor stolen.

I hope this clearifies any questions about how the judgement was made.

sources(in dutch):
http://games.fok.nl/news.php?newsid=27831
http://tweakers.net/nieuws/56315/jongeren-veroordeeld-tot-werkstraffen-wegens-diefstal-virtuele-goederen.html
http://webwereld.nl/articles/53099/taakstraf-ge-ist-voor-digitale-diefstal.html