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Dec. 19th, 2003 02:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
libertangoFrom China's official Xinhua news agency: On-line game player wins 1st virtual properties dispute. From the article:
BEIJING, Dec. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- An on-line video game player who lost "weapons" and "treasure" in the virtual world turned to the courts for help and won China's first virtual properties dispute case.
The Beijing Chaoyang District People's Court ruled Thursday that the on-line game company, Beijing Arctic Ice Technology Development Co. Ltd., should restore the player's lost items.
Li Hongchen, a 24-year-old company employee in north China's Hebei Province, had spent two years and over 10,000 yuan (1,205 USdollars) playing the game and purchasing virtual "bio-chemical weapons", which enabled him notch up victories in the game.
However, he found all his "weapons" had been stolen in February, and were allegedly being used by another player, with the ID, "Shuiliu0011".
Li then began a legal battle to reclaim his "properties" in the real world.
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Moscow Times
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (English weekly edit.)
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BEIJING, Dec. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- An on-line video game player who lost "weapons" and "treasure" in the virtual world turned to the courts for help and won China's first virtual properties dispute case.
The Beijing Chaoyang District People's Court ruled Thursday that the on-line game company, Beijing Arctic Ice Technology Development Co. Ltd., should restore the player's lost items.
Li Hongchen, a 24-year-old company employee in north China's Hebei Province, had spent two years and over 10,000 yuan (1,205 USdollars) playing the game and purchasing virtual "bio-chemical weapons", which enabled him notch up victories in the game.
However, he found all his "weapons" had been stolen in February, and were allegedly being used by another player, with the ID, "Shuiliu0011".
Li then began a legal battle to reclaim his "properties" in the real world.
OK, you may well be asking... Xinhua?
Well, I've been playing with Mozilla Firebird as a browser. One of the cool features it has is "tabbed browsing", where multiple child windows open in the browser.
But the way tabbed browsing becomes really powerful is: Let's say you set up a folder in your Bookmarks called "News". At the bottom of the list in the folder is an option, "Open in Tabs". Push the button, Max, (name that movie) and all the bookmarks open up as tabs.
So, with a single mouse click, I suddenly have the following tabs:
Guardian UK
New York Times
Washington Post
Financial Times
Seattle Times
BBC News
Xinhua
Moscow Times
Sydney Morning Herald
Times of India
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (English weekly edit.)
Le Monde
Dagens Nyheter
If I do a [Ctrl]-[Tab], it advances through the list. Further, I can configure all those pages to update according to a schedule.
News junkie heaven.
