Only in Japan.

Arthois

This kids existence is exactly why more people in the world need to be Pro-choice.... if they were then maybe this kids parents would have averted a disaster that they will live to regret - their failure of a son.

Jcnet

Man busted for trying to steal a virtual dress... thats gotta hurt.

TheBoxNinja

greed eh?

btw nice dress, rawr

Acunia

@Anicode: I don't think it might be considered theft as its only data in the game.. but the problem is with how did he convert it to cash. The penalty would change drasticly depending on that.

Plsk1n

i wonder what the penalty is for stealing fake money?

Anicode

dresses is serious buisness.. leave it to the girls.. at least they can get away with it if they are busted and not get scarred for life.

Plsk1n

@silkylove:
Who said this was news? I sure didn't.

Brian Ashcraft

Forget "hackers on steroids", now we have hackers on estrogen!

Alert Faux News!

ShaggE

Pink Hat ??

AbyssUK

Poor kid all this and cross dressing too.

cchrist

He will forever be known as the hacker who stole a pretty pink dress.

Sabre_Justice

A truly worthy cause, a modern day Robin Hood, if you will.

BNinjaC

I guess today is "news about odd japanese gamers" day.

silkylove

Who wouldn't want that gorgeous dress??

Winterbringer

Because he's under 20 he'll only get a slap on the wrist, if even that.

Jesse in Japan

@Sabre_Justice:
He will forever be known as the hacker who stole a pretty pink dress.

If he'd only managed to get the pretty pink dress, his mad rampage would've been halted.

aldo_14

...used software from an illegal website to obtain the ID and password of a former NEXON employee, which he used to access the company's servers from his home computer last October..

I hate wen people download his cracking tools from illegal websites, wen you can get then from sourceforge or the original website:
[www.ethereal.com]

I smell something absolutelly dumb on this incident. Like the nexon employee password was embeded on the client, or send to the client. Or is imposible to get it withouth server acces/attack.

tei

Somewhat sad. I love the cheat in games: Remenber Carmagedoom? whas really fun to edit the vehicles, and make your vehicle 1000 Tm weight, converting it in a unstopable tank destroying everything :D. The propertys file was cyphered, but whas easy to break that cypher.
Also cheating on some hentai games, like Operation Cobra, to be able to see al scenes.
X-Com? editing the propertys file with a hex-editor, to make grenades explosion 255 power, so these anyong aliens can be found hidden on small rooms.

You sould not blame she/he the 100% (maybe only a 95%). Because is also important for the game devs to protect the game. Childs are childs, and If you left your ferrari open, and with the eyes in, and doors open, you sould share the blame for the results.

tei

You think the kid would cry if I said that dress makes him look fat?

Witzbold

That's a nice dress.

nintendouser1

@huginn (XBL - WendingoPSU):
"Gather 'round, children! I want to tell you a story about the way the intertubes were 50 years ago... A man named Tay Zonday took the e-world by storm with "Chocolate Rain", everyone was chargin' their lazers, two women shared a single cup, and we had no chance to survive make our time.

Some called it madness, but we called it Sparta. In my days, we "pwned noobs" with rickrolls, and life was good. We used to debate endlessly about whether the internet was a big truck or a series of tubes.

Those were simpler times, and if I learned anything from those rip-roarin' days, it's that I pulled up to the house around 7 or 8 and I yelled to the cabbie "Yo homes, smell ya later!" I looked at my kingdom, I was finally there to sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air."

ShaggE

@Jcnet: Yeah, you're right. Then maybe you wouldn't be around to troll people. =)

Mico Mico Nurse

odd, I have 'American Girls' playing right now.

This generation is going to have some very strange memories in our later years. Between tubgirl this acceptance to play and be 'girls' and far, far more, we're going to have some some very odd memories.

huginn (XBL - WendingoPSU)

Wait you can convert game money into real money?

Will this work for Zelda too? I've got a LOT of rupees saved up and I'd absolutely LOVE to cash it in. I've been playing all my life for this opportunity!

2NinjasTapedTogether

@Jcnet: harsh.

geekgrrl

And to think, for that amount of money he probably could have bought the real princess dress and hired some girl to play the princess. So sad.

cybereality

Heh, I'm a girl and I can say with 100% certainty I would never go anywhere near that far to get any item of ingame clothing. Or out-of-game clothing for that matter.

I do like my character's gear on WoW to match though <.<

Shimmergeek

@nya-chama: Three letters - T, M, I.

Frank

Man, walking down Harajuku, who wouldn't think to themselves "I want one of those dresses, even if I have hack to get one".

I actually wear Kodona clothes, male version of gothic lolita ^^v

nya-chama

I still don't get the gay connection - have you guys played an MMO? Would you rather look at a man or a woman for hundreds of hours of playtime? The guy probably played a girl character. Still, STUPID length to go to for in-game items, especially when these games are tied to real economies.

@ShaggE:
I see what you did there...

fuchikoma

@ShaggE: Well played, well played.

pj898

A dress? Really? You know how I know he's gay?

tHieu!

@Witzbold: LOL!

RonJeremy4Pres

This is ridiculous. He shouldn't have to be in jail for that...he didn't steal anything concrete. I think they should render him in 3D and put him in a virtual jail.

nxp3

Poor kid. I guess he lost perspective.

Herodito

@tHieu!: Hm? I'm male to female trans, yet I have no interest in men. Sorry, life isn't always so black and white.

Yuki

@nya-chama: ...freeeaaaaaak.

Sabre_Justice

Did you not read the part where he cashed out $5,500, real money.

Baff

heh. if i get $5,500 cash with my favourite pink dress...it's a bonus!

xD

Onizuka-GTO

Take it Off! Take it Off!
,=p

MajorWedgie

Now if he had left it with the dress, maybe he wouldn't gotten in as much trouble (probably fines and stuff), but once it went into converting in-game money to real cash, that kind of crossed the line.

Plus the dress is "meh".

Koji Otaku

That dress totally clashes with the purple hair.

Type-R

I'm still wondering on how he was able to cash out for real money...

Other than that so he played a female character whoopdee doo... Maybe that dress had some awesome stats on it... Hell haven't you seen those male mages running around in a "dress."

That Girl Hates You