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Virtual Worlds Get Real About Punishment

Submitted: August 20, 2008 - 7:43am
Last updated: August 20, 2008 - 7:43am
Source: Washington Post
Author: Kim Hart

Virtual worlds have often been called the digital equivalent of the Wild West, where animated alter egos can live in a fantasy frontier. But in some of these universes, a sheriff has come to town.

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