Comments on: Laws for the Virtual Universe

By: Jeremy Costin

Jeremy Costin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:49:49 +0000

Good question, and especially interesting for your choice of words, K. A “benefit”? Depends how you determine what constitutes a benefit. Much of the legal scholarship looks at benefits in terms of pecuniary details. Much of sociological theory deals with political and social power as benefits in addition to or instead of pecuniary gains.

I’m defining it very loosely: the benefit to the player that can be gained is anything that the player considers to be a benefit. So, to the list of pecuniary, political, and social benefits, I am adding pleasure, experience, and the opportunity to be curious and explore. Anyway, more detail in the follow-up post, linked to below in the “trackback.”

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By: K

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:21:25 +0000

Well, my initial reaction is to ask, “Why?” Why would we want to do this? Is there a benefit to the visitors of/players in these virtual worlds? This is not my area by any means, so it is quite possible that I’m just missing something here.