Wasn't this in a Neal Stepehnson novel?

[jeffreyab]

Its a story about a Chinese man who stabbed his friend who sold the cyber sword they had jointly discovered.

Has anyone seen any other cases of virtual theft?

i had heard people were selling characters online after building them into super heros.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050330/od_uk_nm/oukoe_life_china_sabre&e=1

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/30/online_gaming_death/

The last site links to this story about a women who erased her boyfriend's online gaming files:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/21/spurned_womans_revenge/

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[tlatoani.livejournal.com]

It's been going on for a few years now, I think.