The law should require users to be shown and sign off on agreements spelling out exactly what can happen to their avatars.

It also raises two questions:

1) If some slimeball gets his jollies raping virtual kiddies, will that eventually get stale? Will he be more likely to move on to the real thing? Or is knowing there's a real person attached to the avatar enough to get his rocks off?

2) Can users go after the giggling freaks who write this sort of software in civil court?

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