""I went mad - I was so hurt. I just couldn't believe what he'd done," Amy said, of finding her feckless hubby having pretend sex in a game with a stranger.

"I looked at the computer screen and could see his character having sex with a female character. It's cheating as far as I'm concerned."

"The solicitor wasn't at all surprised - she said it was her second divorce case involving Second Life that week," she added.

Amy's Second Life alter-ego was called Laura Skye. Pollard's was call..."

"Over the past several years many journalists, game developers and gamers themselves have tried their hand at drawing up a document that definitively catalogs players' rights. Reactions against DRM, including the recent Amazon review-bomb against Spore, comprise the majority of those arguments currently on the average gamer's radar, but older documents, including Raph Koster's Declaration of the Rights of Avatars, have been around for years now. They're hardly new concepts, but what is new is ..."

"Because it is nearly impossible to ban actual web sites, which can be easily moved around the internet, the law targets the payment processing systems (bank credit cards, PayPal, etc) that make the internet economy work. The law makes banks evaluate your personal charges and block transactions which involve activity in these two areas. As Congressman Ron Paul testified in April,

"The regulations and underlying bill also force financial institutions to act as law enforcement officers. T..."

"While attending an event hosted by Schmilsson Nilsson at the Bradesco sim in Second Life where breaking news (he will blog about it!) was announced by HiPiHi just now, I received two simultaneous instant messages, one from Hamlet Au:

heya, I'm interviewing someone who's helping kids with cancer by selling hair with cthulhu god of the underworld

and one from one of our collaborators on the development of the DIP sim in SL, Michelene, who said:

I found something neat for your graveyard..."

"A virtual depiction of the Rayburn House Office Building meeting room was projected on television screens on the wall, so that real-world attendees could take a look at the small virtual crowd that logged on for the event. Attendees logging in from Second Life, meanwhile, could watch the proceedings in a video screen projected on the wall of the virtual room. The real-world guests included executives from Linden Labs, IBM and a tech firm that helps nonprofit organizations take advantage of vi..."

"With the stock market growing increasingly skittish, these are uncertain financial times. That is, unless you're hawking wares in Linden Lab's Second Life, the popular PC life simulation/virtual world whose generation of real-world cash with in-game real estate deals have created at least one real-world millionaire.

This week, Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale told Business 2.0 the scale of trade in Second Life. He estimates that virtual merchants make over $1.3 million every day hawking in-..."

"Mr Jones says streaming video can be uploaded into SL and a scenario can easily be constructed whereby an experienced bomb-maker could demonstrate how to assemble bombs using his avatar to answer questions as he plays the video.

The bomb-maker and his students could be spread across the world, using instant language translation tools to communicate."

"Kevin Alderman thinks of himself as "the Hugh Hefner of the digital millennium."

He has built a virtual adult entertainment empire, making and selling cyber sex toys in a three-dimensional online world known as "Second Life," a hugely popular Internet community with 7 million residents.

On Tuesday, his company, Eros, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court claiming the avatar known as Volkov Catteneo has violated the trademark on one of his devices called a Sex Gen. Eros claims the avata..."

"The latest issue of Weekly Famitsu has confirmed that Tetsuya Mizuguchi, creator of Rez and Lumines, and Japanese advertising firm Dentsu will be working on a collaboration project, creating a Virtual Tokyo for the open-ended simulation PC game Second Life."

"Countless young children disappear every day in the world, are the victims of abuse and crime, and see their short lives ended by vile scumbags, but when one is pretty, female and white, then the media start to take notice and sensationalism begins. Madeleine McCann, a British toddler of just four years of age, went missing several weeks ago at a Portugese resort when her parents left her sleeping alone to go and have lunch elsewhere. Since the girl fits the criteria above, a media storm ensu..."

"Second Life is being investigated by German police following allegations that some members are trading child abuse images in the online world.

The investigation follows a report by a German TV news programme which uncovered the trading group and members who pay for sex with virtual children.

The police are now trying to identify the Second Life members involved.

Linden Lab, the creator of Second Life, said it would help identify users and pass on details to prosecutors.

Jail t..."

"“I dreamed up any excuse I could with my family to tell them I needed to get online for a few minutes here and there,” he says. “It was pathetic.” That’s where the lines get blurry, says P. Shavaun Scott, a marriage and family therapist from San Luis Obispo, Calif.

“If people are getting their needs for love, attention, intimacy, companionship and sex from somewhere else, I think it’s cheating,” she says. “And, if they’re keeping their relationship a secret from their real-life partner.”"