On Determining the Nature of Virtual Property Robbery
XU Fu-ren · Journal of Zhaoqing University · 2006
Crimes involving virtual property are on rapid increase in recent years,posing a big problem for both the legislative and judicial bodies.What should be noticed is that such crimes may not always take place in the cyber space,they may quite as often take place in our real life.The robbery of virtual property,for example,can be both virtual robbery of virtual property,and actual robbery of virtual property as is to be illustrated in the case quoted below.Although they are in common in having some virtual property as its object,they are quite different in other aspects of crime and the harm they do to the society is different.Only by making a clear distinction between these two types of robbery,correctly determining the nature of it and properly measuring the penalty can we expect to effectively curb this kind of crime.