<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">This has been known of for many years, and is hardly the most<br>extreme example out there. The news is that word of this is<br>just now hitting mainstream media.<br><br>Pirating is widespread enough that it is available effectively for<br>free, though one may have to spend a few hours searching<br>(and possibly, have been exposed enough to think of the right<br>keywords to search on). As with any freely available and<br>popular* data, it has been archived around the world, and is<br>impossible to eradicate by any means that call a lot of<br>attention to it.<br><br>* Popular precisely because it elicits such a moral panic<br>without directly inflicting harm on anyone - with the arguable<br>exception of the person playing the game, who has unarguably<br>consented. (At least, from their own point of view, but part of<br>the point of such acts is
sometimes to demonstrate that their<br>own point of view, not the law's or any other person's, is the<br>only thing controlling actions like obtaining and playing this<br>game. Since said other points of view declare it "forbidden"<br>but fail to convincingly explain the reasons why - and fallbacks<br>like "because I will punish you if I find out" only mean that it<br>has to be done in stealth, as in the fabled Spartan mindset -<br>said other points are rejected. The disconnect often has to<br>do with the value placed on perception by third parties, which<br>tends to be higher the older one gets, and thus the more<br>aware one is of the reliance one has on the rest of society.)<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 3/30/10, John Grigg <i><possiblepaths2050@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">This CNN article tells of public anger against Japanese videogame
makers who let players commit virtual rape. I wonder where future technological advances will take this matter... And can the courts and law enforcement curtail it?<br><div id="yiv663920396">
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