On the Nature of Virtual Property Theft
LI Xia-zhen · Hebei faxue · 2012
The crime of destroying computer information system being definited as crime of theft conforms to the principle of a legally prescribed punishment for a specified crime,the crime does not reflect the aim of crime,stealing virtual property doesn't disturb public order.Virtual property has value,and can be controlled by thieves actually,also can be taken away from the victim,which conforms to the requirements of theft.If thieves have criminal intent to permanently deprive the virtual property from victim,we ought to investigate its criminal responsibility of larceny.Stealing virtual property also is characterized as larceny in foreign practice.Theft behaviors of the virtual property may also constitute theft,violation of communication freedom,unlawfully taking computer information system datum,or the crime of destroying computer information system,which belongs to the imaginative joinder of offenses.