http://gamersrightslawyer.com/2009/12/18/danger-in-online-worlds/ For lawyers, game publishers, game makers, and game developers who care about gamer’s rights Sun, 19 Dec 2010 02:05:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 http://gamersrightslawyer.com/2009/12/18/danger-in-online-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Benjamin Duranske Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:33:57 +0000 http://gamersrights.solopracticeuniversity.com/?p=58#comment-27 Great summary. I'm glad that the FTC spent the resources to dig relatively deep on this issue, and I think that the key to understanding why we need special controls (ideally, voluntary ones that the virtual world and game provider community enters into on its own, though that may be overly hopeful) is a) that these worlds are growing increasingly integrated with the real world, and b) that the technology is really appealing to kids, and a lot of parents are so far behind that they aren't really sure what their kids are doing when they're off the more mainstream web and in a private environment. Rob Bloomfield and I talked a bit about this in the paper you linked to (which was cited in the report). Hope you're having a great holiday season. -Ben Great summary. I’m glad that the FTC spent the resources to dig relatively deep on this issue, and I think that the key to understanding why we need special controls (ideally, voluntary ones that the virtual world and game provider community enters into on its own, though that may be overly hopeful) is a) that these worlds are growing increasingly integrated with the real world, and b) that the technology is really appealing to kids, and a lot of parents are so far behind that they aren’t really sure what their kids are doing when they’re off the more mainstream web and in a private environment. Rob Bloomfield and I talked a bit about this in the paper you linked to (which was cited in the report). Hope you’re having a great holiday season. -Ben

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