Criminal Law Protection Of Online Game Virtual Property

With the development of information technology, now, now that people’s dependence on the network is hard to imagine that the Internet has become an indispensable tool in people’s daily lives. The Internet has changed the world, and has since divided the world into two, one is the real world, the other is the virtual world. in the online world, online games have a crucial role, it can be said to occupy half of the cyber world. The kingdom of the online game with real-world accounts, money, clothing and so on. However, these were respectively named the game account, game currency and game equipment. Game account, game currency, game items that we will be discussed below, the online game virtual property. The booming online gaming industry so that it become a new driving force to promote China’s economic growth. Online games to meet the material and spiritual needs of people in real life can not be achieved. However, the attendant for the online game virtual property crime more and more.Currently, the United States, Germany, Korea, Japan and China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the criminal law protection of virtual property has its own unique law, which in our criminal justice system has not yet legislation on the protection of property of a unified standards and regulations. In judicial practice, for infringement of the behavior of the virtual property theft to be identified, or the crime of violation of freedom of communication to be identified, or the crime of destruction of computer information systems to be identified. If you want to have a unified understanding of the criminal law protection of virtual property, first to understand the problem is the existence of the virtual property value only in the case of virtual property has value only to the need for legal protection. I believe that virtual property online game players into the amount of labor, time, energy, intelligence and money is a crystallization of the wisdom and labor of the valuable items can be included in which the scope of private property, so virtual property to contain the value. Virtual property research in China lags far behind the speed of development of virtual property, a lot about the legal issues of virtual property there are many disputes, criminal law protection of virtual property is in a vacuum state with no legal basis. If you do not attach importance to the protection of virtual property, criminal law, not only will the virtual owner of the property to bring material and spiritual losses, and will affect the normal development of the order of the network market, and even affect the healthy development of the market economy. In order to safeguard the healthy development of the Internet industry, to protect the legitimate rights of the virtual owner of the property, this article will be the criminal law of virtual property protection issues.