Tag Archives: interration

On Virtual Travel

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Jeremy Costin

Why would a denizen of a virtual world want to cross over into another virtual world, especially if she couldn’t bring her special powers, skills, or goods into that other world?  This was the question asked in a comment the … Continue reading →

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Laws for the Virtual Universe

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Jeremy Costin

What if virtual worlds, no matter their purposes, narratives, unique details, and other variations, could be linked? What if they had borders between them, keeping the right stuff in its place, but in other ways being permeable? Continue reading →

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EULAs and Interration

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Jeremy Costin

Ed Castronova proposes a legal rubric called interration, kind of like incorporation for virtual worlds. He divides all virtual/synthetic/online/artificial worlds into two categories: closed and open. Closed worlds have no interaction with the outside world (Earth, real life, meat space, … Continue reading →

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