Hacker steals $12 million worth of Zynga poker chips

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

... This shows that the legal regulation and protection of virtual
goods and currency, which historically has been fairly uncertain, is
evolving fast - driven partly by the boom in virtual goods sales in
games. This case is particularly interesting because it involved a UK
court recognising virtual currency - in this case, Zynga chips - as
legal property which can be protected by existing UK criminal
laws...The court effectively found that, even though virtual currency
isn't real and is infinite in supply, it still can deserve legal
protection in the same way as real world currency.

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/03/5981061-hacker-steals-12-million-worth-of-zynga-poker-chips
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