Personanondata: Virtual Felony

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Virtual Felony

According to the BBC, a 17 year old Dutch boy was arrested for allegedly steeling $3500 of virtual furniture from the 'homes' of residents of the online community Habbo. According to website administrators, the real world threat of Id theft also exists in the virtual world and this perp and several co-conspirators convinced some Habbo players to fork over their passwords. Since the Habbo credits used to buy stuff players use in the game are purchased with real money, steeling someones couch is a 'real' crime. I wonder if they will do time in a real jail?

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Michael Cairns is currently Head of Partner and Channel Development for the publishing unit of the American Psychological Association which is a $100million scholarly, academic and educational publisher. In this role, he is responsible for all sales and marketing activities supporting the revenue base and working with current and new partners to expand APA's publishing program and mission. Michael Cairns has served as President, CEO and CRO of several brand name publishing, technology and content-centric businesses. His career includes a wide range of publishing and information products, services and B2B categories and his operating and consulting experience has largely been with brand-name companies such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Macmillan, Inc., Berlitz International, AARP, R.R. Bowker and Wolters Kluwer. Mr. Cairns has also served on boards including the Association of American Publishers (AAP), the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) and also served as Chairman of the International ISBN Executive Committee.