9 May 12: Virtual pet owners sue Google over lost virtual gold - The owners of virtual pets in the online world “SuperPoke! Pets” have brought a class action against the game’s owner, Google, for eliminating the “gold” balances in their accounts when the game was closed

21 July 2011: Virtual property insurance – There are a growing number of cases where users have been the subject of hacking and other situations where they have had their virtual property stolen. While most game and virtual world operators try to shield themselves from claims of loss by their users through effective legal strategies embodied in their terms of service, this risk may now be insurable – at least in China (Pillsbury)

23 May 2011: Julian Dibbell’s account of Mr Bugnle’s ‘rapes’ in LambdaMOO

12 May 2011: Australian gamer blackballed over virtual world fraud – Facing real world debts, a trusted figure in a popular online game stole money from the virtual bank he ran and exchanged it for cash through the black market (The Age)