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Teen brutally beaten by rivals to win masks and an amulet he possessed in a medieval fantasy game
Dutch Supreme Court upheld the theft conviction
Court said the virtual objects were valuable to the gamer's 13-year-old because of the time and effort he put into' in winning the game.
By Jill Reilly Updated: 11:45 BST, 2 February 2012
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A Dutch teenager was assaulted and threatened with a knife after an argument over virtual possessions in the popular online fantasy game RuneScape.
The 13-year-old boy was targeted because he "picked up" an amulet and mask while playing, which two other teenagers also wanted too.
They kicked him and swung knives, and then forced him to log into RuneScape and surrender the items.
Intimidation: The teenage was beaten and threatened with a knife during a row about virtual objects in a popular online game of fantasy called RuneScape
This allowed one to steal the items while the other one was playing the game.
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RUNESCAPE.COM FACTS
RuneScape was created in 2001, is home to around 10 million active players, who are believed to be regular users.
It is located in the medieval world of Gielinor which is comprised of rolling hills covered in grass and vast areas of woodland.
The game holds Guinness World Records for world's most popular free role playing game.
In 2009, a hacker broke into computer accounts and stole virtual characters and their possessions from RuneScape and was given a police warning.
A few months prior to that, a RuneScape account was sold on eBay for $46,000.
Although the assault happened in 2007 and the two attackers were sentenced in 2009, one of them appealed to the Dutch Supreme Court.
Yesterday however, the Netherlands highest court upheld the theft conviction.
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The suspect's lawyer had argued the amulet and the mask were not tangible or material and, unlike for example electricity, were of no economic value.'
The Court declared that the virtual objects were of intrinsic value to the player at 13 years old due to the time and energy he spent in winning them while playing.
The names of the defendants have been kept secret because they were juveniles and the defendant that appealed was sentenced to 144 hours of community service.
Virtual life is not new.
The Dutch Supreme Court said the virtual objects had an intrinsic value for the 13-year-old player due to the time and energy he invested' in winning them while playing the game and upheld the theft conviction
In 2009 a man who hacked into accounts on computers and stole virtual characters and their belongings from RuneScape was given a police warning.
The Dutch Supreme Court sentenced him to 100 hours of community service.
In September of last year, a middle-aged man in Devon charged round to the house of a schoolboy and throttled him after his online character was killed during the game of Call Of Duty.
Mark Bradford, 46, was furious when he was shot dead in the war simulation by the 13-year-old, and "lost it" when the youngster goaded him over his online death.
Unemployed father of three Bradford was escorted from his bed in Plymouth, Devon, and confronted the youngster at the home of his son's friend by placing his hands round the neck of the boy.
They had been playing Call Of Duty: Black Ops online against each other and were talking on microphones.
The assault culminated when the teenager's frightened mother pulled Bradford off the boy, who was left bruised and reddening around the neck.
In 2005, a 20-year-old from Alabama who was arrested for shooting three police officers, claimed that his actions were not due to the time he spent playing video game 'Grand Theft Auto' where players shoot police officers and then steal cars.
Devin Moore, his arrestee said to the police that life is a game and that everyone must die at some point in time.
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