iamq said:
Another reason not to use Playstation Home.
*fixed* Another reason not to use .
This may come as a shock to many people, but this behavior is not "sexual assault" as defined by the law. It is likely harassment as the action appears to be derived by one player's enjoyment of the interruption of another player's enjoyment of the game, but assault it is not. As has been stated before, it is no more assault than PVP is murder, or killing Orcs and Goblins is racist.
Just as cannot replace Orcs with another color of human that does not match your own and have your killing of them suddenly change from noble to racist, you cannot log into a virtual world and make an avatar that matches your sex (and possibly looks) and suddenly the game changes from a pretend playground into a digital representation of self that renders you immune to the rampant douchebaggery that infests the online world. And since all of this is done in a video game which is, by definition, NOT REAL the interaction between the avatars basically amounts to a hill of beans.
So, whether your avatar is being killed by, "crouched on" or "tea-bagged" by another avatar, the net result is that you are sitting in front of your computer screen watching a complex system of pixels and polygons interact with each other and your linking of the pixels to yourself is wholly contained within your own imagination is therefore is afforded no protection under any legal body or moral code of conduct.
Bottom line - It's not real, go play soccer or hang out at the mall if you want real.
