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Poor poor WOW players. EBay banned the sales of virtual goods but still will keep sales going for goods from the on-line game Second Life. Warcraft will have its revenge and it will be swift!

I thought eBay made auctions of game items illegal? Either way this means 1 Linden is roughly equivalent to 1/2 a Yen, 4 Won, 9 Bolivares, or 69 Dong.

AMSTERDAM, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Dutch bank ABN AMRO NV became the latest enterprise to tap into the growing popularity of Second Life, by opening a branch on Friday inside the Internet-based virtual world.ABN AMRO, the Netherlands’ biggest bank, said it will create a virtual bank resembling ABN’s real-life outlets, offering financial advice.ABN said it [...]

AMSTERDAM, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Virtual enactments of child pornography in virtual worlds like Second Life may be a crime under Dutch law if it encourages child abuse, the public prosecutor said on Wednesday.Some Second Life users participate in “age play,” in which they can create child-like avatars and have virtual sex that would be [...]

Sexually explicit content and services probably don’t drive Second Life’s US$500 million virtual economy, but it’s difficult for anyone including Linden Lab to know for sure, Chief Executive Philip Rosedale said in an interview.