{"id":142,"date":"2005-03-30T12:15:14","date_gmt":"2005-03-30T16:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/03\/30\/virtual-sword-kills-for-real\/"},"modified":"2005-03-30T12:15:14","modified_gmt":"2005-03-30T16:15:14","slug":"virtual-sword-kills-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/03\/30\/virtual-sword-kills-for-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Sword Kills for Real"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BEIJING (Reuters) – A Shanghai online game player stabbed to death a
\n competitor who sold his cyber-sword, the China Daily said Wednesday, creating
\n a dilemma in China where no law exists for the ownership of virtual weapons.<\/p>\n

Qiu Chengwei, 41, stabbed competitor Zhu Caoyuan repeatedly in the chest
\n after he was told Zhu had sold his "dragon saber," used in the
\n popular online game, "Legend of Mir 3," the newspaper said
\n a Shanghai court was told Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Qiu and a friend jointly won their weapon last February, and lent it to
\n Zhu who then sold it for 7,200 yuan (US$870), the newspaper said.<\/p>\n

Qui went to the police to report the "theft" but was told the
\n weapon was not real property protected by law.\n <\/p>\n

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