Second Life: Online Retailers Suing Resident for Theft

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A half-dozen entrepreneurs are suing a Queens man, charging him with coun terfeiting and selling versions of their prod ucts. Here´s the catch: The products aren´t real, and the alleged crimes took place in a virtual world on the Web. Nonetheless, six Internet retailers have banded together in the real world demanding payback from their nemesis from Second Life, an online universe with more than 10 million registered members who create identities and digital represen tations of themselves, starting with nothing and spending actual cash and credit to pur chase clothing, food and shelter. Second Lifers can fly, slay monsters, get married, have sex, and make money. Some Lifers support them selves via the game´s economy, in which an average of 1 million a day in real dollars changes hands.