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Posted: Jun 10th 2009 10:24PM (Unverified) said
"I did it for the lulz" doesn't cut it anymore.
The attitude of "The internets is serious business" kinda falls flat when people start dying over this crap.
Would be great if they could catch the person/persons responsible and charge them. Be even better if they could add the weight of the suicide to the case.
Posted: Jun 11th 2009 6:06PM (Unverified) said
Of course your reasoning is absurd. The blame for the suicide lies in the perpetrator - the suicide victim. He murdered himself. Far too late to punish him, but he was the author of his death and the reason for the pain of his loved ones.
Furthermore, equating the deliberate, malicious crashing of servers and the deletion of content with dressing up like an roast ham and staring at someone for ten minutes is even more absurd. There is no comparison, no way of any reasonable person could compare the two behaviours. On one hand you have a business being attacked and their secure data being wiped, their servers being reset and having to expend real resources to recover. On the other hand, you have someone who stares at bizarre Second Life behaviour while dressed up as an anthropmorphic ham. And who occasionally, unavoidably, laughs.
Posted: Jun 11th 2009 9:07PM (Unverified) said