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Real concern over virtual under-age sex (News, Financial Times)
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Written by Enniv Zarf
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
By Aline Van Duy
Every day, people spend more than $2m on goods and services in the three-dimensional online fantasy world called Second Life. Land, houses, tables and chairs, clothes, entertainment - pretty much anything that people can buy in real life is for sale in Second Life. It is one of the most popular of the growing number of "virtual worlds" inhabited by avatars, electronic characters that can resemble human beings or anything else, from weird aliens to animals. It is not just individuals that inhabit these worlds: companies from IBM to Reuters have set up offices, hold meetings or advertise on Second Life. People do things in these virtual worlds that, in real life, could result in imprisonment. Paying a child for sex, for example. READ IT ALL HERE: http://www.ftd.de/karriere_management
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 12 June 2007 )
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