How do you say "lol @ you taking internet for real" in Shanghainese?
On Metafilter, Trik posts about the sentencing of a Chinese gamer who murdered another guy over an mmog "cyber-weapon":

Death sentence for online gamer SHANGHAI: A Shanghai online gamer who murdered another player because of a dispute over a "cyber-weapon" was given the death sentence with a two-year reprieve yesterday at Shanghai No 2 Intermediate People's Court. Qiu Chengwei's death penalty will be commuted to life in prison if he behaves well in jail, and no other crimes relating to him are uncovered.

Not to condone the murder, but is cyber theft or isn't it? Acording to the DMCA if I download a song or movie from cyberspace I am commiting a crime. Yet if someone steals your item in a cyberworld and sells it for real world cash your left without recourse. I feel China had a chance to establish new law and balked.

MetaFilter is confused. "Does Trik want us to sympathize with the guy who killed someone else OVER AN ONLINE GAME?" they ask. In several tl;dr comments, Trik explains that this is exactly what he wants. Snark happens.

Edit: Trik swims farther out towards the deep end! Now someone selling your cyber-sword is like rape:

There are people living in societies today, where say you have a family of a father, mother, son, daughter.
Some asshole rapes and brutalizes either or both the mother or sister / daughter.
Unable to live with the shame that the mother and or sister / daughter has brought upon them, the father and or son / brother, will murder their mother and or sister / daughter.
Whereas in my culture / society the sonofabitch that hurt my mother and or sister better pray the cops get him before I do. And no one will ever hurt them again.

I wouldn't victimize the victim again.

I think that guy felt like he'd been victimize 3x.