Stanford CIS

Real-world consequences of MMOG investigations

By Stanford Center for Internet and Society on

A few days ago, I sort of glibly linked to an article about a teenager ("Evangeline")  who was running a cyber-brothel in The Sims Online.

Well, the fallout from this story has now reached the mainstream press, and the Detroit Free Press has an interesting recap. A great reminder of the impossibility of ever really separating a person's online and offline realities.

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