Research On Legal Attributes Of Theft Of Virtual Property

The human society has already marched into the network economical time now.The network economy,which has different characteristic from the traditional fanning economy and the industry economy,is honored as the new economy.The online game industry is the representative of the network industry currently.With the rapid development of the online game,apart from the property in the real world,people also have property in the cyberspace, for example,the equipment of online game,the ideal money and Soon.In the cyberspace, property is generally called "the network virtual property".With the rise and popularization of network and online game,the dispute about online games appears very often.Especially,there are more and more cases on virtual property theft.How to correctly determine the legal nature of such acts has been a hot issue in theory research currently.Because there is no clear legislation in criminal law about violating the relevant conduct virtual property,so in practice,it only can be through the expansion of the relevant provisions in order to seek to explain the legal basis for specific cases.Such would not only lead to that players will not get the legal relief,but also lead to that such acts is not effectively curbed. The phenomenon,which is a problem we cannot avoid,must be paid attention to by society as a whole,This paper introduces the concept and characteristic of network virtual property,and introduces the judicial condition of cases of stealing network virtual property from the cases about-disposal of infringing network virtual property in some countries and regions and from the identification of stealing network virtual property in judicial practice in our country. Taking case of stealing virtual property as an example,it points out that acts of theft of virtual property should be classified as Theft and indicates the difficulties of classifying.