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Old 2012-07-11, 20:15   Link #1061
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Regarding guilt levels etc, as this is a free-fire zone:

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As for the killing itself, at least under British Law, which I studied, you'd need to prove a certain chain of causation, and pull in the Reasonable Man test for loads of things. Is Kayaba's assertation that death ingame is reasonable and believable? - among other things.

As for mens rea, the barest minimum you need is to prove the intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and the actus rea is the act itself. Mens rea may not be provable, but it should be possible to establish causation by using server logs - time D PKs V is recorded and shows cause of death, and system establishes D is the killer, then in the real world the NervGear kills the player.

But since mens rea may not be provable, you'd get Manslaughter instead. (i'm simplifying a lot from what I studied.)
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Old 2012-07-11, 21:09   Link #1062
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As for the killing itself, at least under British Law, which I studied, you'd need to prove a certain chain of causation, and pull in the Reasonable Man test for loads of things. Is Kayaba's assertation that death ingame is reasonable and believable? - among other things.
bingo, and I don't believe any court or jury will consider it to be either, at least pre-SAO, as by any reasonable measure it's an completely unprecedented event that puts the players in an impossible situation.

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As for mens rea, the barest minimum you need is to prove the intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and the actus rea is the act itself. Mens rea may not be provable, but it should be possible to establish causation by using server logs - time D PKs V is recorded and shows cause of death, and system establishes D is the killer, then in the real world the NervGear kills the player.

But since mens rea may not be provable, you'd get Manslaughter instead. (i'm simplifying a lot from what I studied.)
even then they'd have to show that it rises to the level of gross/criminal negligence, which is a hard sell considering the extraordinary circumstances.
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Old 2012-07-11, 21:54   Link #1063
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It may seem that way to you since you as a reader knows what's going on with 100% certainty, but that is not the case for the players who were stuck in SAO - they did not know whether what Kayaba said was true, nor did they have any way of verifying that fact, nor was there any precedent that would have any one reasonably believe that such a premise is even possible. Imagine yourself playing BF3, and you were told that if you shoot player Bob237 he would die in RL. You ignore the message and proceed to RPG Bob237 into next week, and it turns out someone ended up killing the player behind Bob237 for real - are you now liable for murder?
In that situation the player doesn't know anything but what someone in the game told them. But the SAO players know they're stuck in the game and no one in the real world is getting them out. That doesn't make sense unless Kayaba's threat is credible. And there's strong evidence that the LCs believed it due ot the simple fact that they didn't kill themselves to escape the game.

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Your analogy is also flawed - Hacking into a hospital's computer is a criminal act, and changing the prescription to lethal drugs is both an illegal act and shows intent -
They are illegal acts on their own which you probably would be prosecuted for, but you'd still be prosecuted for the murder itself, and you would be even if hacking the system and altering the prescription were legal.

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PKing in a video game is neither.
Not when SAO started, but we have no way of knowing what laws the Diet came up with in the intervening two years.

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Not quite, causality is also a poor way to word it. Also, as I mentioned in the earlier post - you'll be unable to establish either the act or intent.

They were able to view player stats and whatnot, hard to say what other information they were privy to, and again, these are ultimately immaterial.
If the stats include "Player X (IP: 256.001.100.001) killed Player Y (IP: 187.123.001.020)" or there were witnesses within the game, then prosecutors absolutely could prove the act. Then it's just a matter of convincing the jury that a reasonable person in that situation would've believed Kayaba -- and I'm sure there are plenty of SAO players who'd be willing to offer their testimony on that count.
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Old 2012-07-11, 21:55   Link #1064
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Uh, no. Negligence wouldn't arise in a murder trial - at least, a British trial, which is the paradigm I approach from - but that would be involved in the various inevitable lawsuits Argas would be tied up in - under British law, they're vicariously liable for all the shit Kayaba pulled while employed by them.

Manslaughter may be an easier sell than murder, though most likely a prosecutor would prefer to go after Kayaba because it'd be easier to finger him, as opposed to youths who chant, "We thought it was just a game!"

That said depending how the judge directs the jury, and how the prosecution makes the case and the defence plays things out... In a jury trial, anything could happen. Contract tends to be a bit more clear cut, which wasrobably why I liked contract a lot more.

Also, Jack Thompson would have had a field day with this poaching-murder-sex simulator game.
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Old 2012-07-11, 22:16   Link #1065
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hm does the blond girl that appeared with kirito asuna with a new avatar? or is she a completely diferent person?

edit: if it is her what happened?why didn't she reconized kirito since his avatar has the same looks that his body in the real world?
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Old 2012-07-11, 22:53   Link #1066
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In that situation the player doesn't know anything but what someone in the game told them. But the SAO players know they're stuck in the game and no one in the real world is getting them out. That doesn't make sense unless Kayaba's threat is credible. And there's strong evidence that the LCs believed it due ot the simple fact that they didn't kill themselves to escape the game.
maybe, maybe not, and that's part of the issue - there are so much reasonable doubt to go around you can probably build a bridge to the moon with it. Also, many players still believed that they'll be rescued eventually, hence why they stayed in the starting town and never left.

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They are illegal acts on their own which you probably would be prosecuted for, but you'd still be prosecuted for the murder itself, and you would be even if hacking the system and altering the prescription were legal.
you've completely missed the point, without those you cannot establish murder in the first place. You're more the welcome to have your own definition of murder, but when it comes to a court of law, your personal definition doesn't mean anything.

Also, you can't just say you'd still be prosecuted for murder if hacking and altering prescription were legal, it'd be akin to saying someone would be prosecuted for murder even though shooting people in the head with a gun was legal, it'd be a factually impossible situation.

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Not when SAO started, but we have no way of knowing what laws the Diet came up with in the intervening two years.
I point you to Ex Post Facto law - which are prohibited in Article 1 of the US Constitution, and Article 39 of the Japanese Constitution. Also attempting to apply laws passed during the two years where the SAO players were locked into the game and cut off from the rest of the world would also violate Due Process - as there is no way for them to know of the new laws that were passed.

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If the stats include "Player X (IP: 256.001.100.001) killed Player Y (IP: 187.123.001.020)" or there were witnesses within the game, then prosecutors absolutely could prove the act. Then it's just a matter of convincing the jury that a reasonable person in that situation would've believed Kayaba -- and I'm sure there are plenty of SAO players who'd be willing to offer their testimony on that count.
And any halfway decent lawyer would rip those witnesses apart. Time and time again in the novel we were reminded on how nobody really know for sure if what Kayaba said is true, Kirito himself included.

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Uh, no. Negligence wouldn't arise in a murder trial - at least, a British trial, which is the paradigm I approach from
yup, though I was referring to the possible manslaughter charges with the negligence part.

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Also, Jack Thompson would have had a field day with this poaching-murder-sex simulator game.
oh boy, that guy....
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Old 2012-07-11, 23:21   Link #1067
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Will in game recordings be possible to use in court as evidence? or is the possibility of fabrication too high for that?

Then again old Aincrad was destroyed so most data was wiped out...
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Old 2012-07-11, 23:33   Link #1068
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Er, I'm sorry if this is trouble for you guys but any1 can tell me the flow of story after vol 7, vol 8 is collection of side stories and vol 9's beginning is really confusing me. Honestly, I do not know how to keep track of the story after vol 7
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Old 2012-07-11, 23:37   Link #1069
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Er, I'm sorry if this is trouble for you guys but any1 can tell me the flow of story after vol 7, vol 8 is collection of side stories and vol 9's beginning is really confusing me. Honestly, I do not know how to keep track of the story after vol 7
7 & 8 as you said are side stories, some happen after vol6 (caliber) some before (Murder).

As for Vol9, just skip prologue 1 and start with prologue 2. Go back to prologue 1 after finishing ch1. makes more sense that way.
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Old 2012-07-11, 23:42   Link #1070
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Will in game recordings be possible to use in court as evidence? or is the possibility of fabrication too high for that?

Then again old Aincrad was destroyed so most data was wiped out...
we don't know what kind of data the monitoring team was able to gather from the server, so it's hard to say whether they have any relevance or are even admissable.

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Er, I'm sorry if this is trouble for you guys but any1 can tell me the flow of story after vol 7, vol 8 is collection of side stories and vol 9's beginning is really confusing me. Honestly, I do not know how to keep track of the story after vol 7
vol.9 is the beginning of the Alicization arc, which is the longest and final arc of SAO, and is about Kirito's experience in Underworld, an accelerated digital construct similiar to the one you see in AW.
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Old 2012-07-12, 00:51   Link #1071
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Uhm, so vol 9 start right after vol 6?

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As for Vol9, just skip prologue 1 and start with prologue 2. Go back to prologue 1 after finishing ch1. makes more sense that way.
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Old 2012-07-12, 01:02   Link #1072
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naw, vol 6 is the end of the GGO arc, followed by Mother's Rosario(vol.7), which is a one volume (and very good) story, 8 is a collection of short stories, then the start of Alicization arc w/ vol.9
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Old 2012-07-12, 02:55   Link #1073
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One more question, the side story "There is but one ultimate way" is after vol 8 right? Is it right before vol 9?
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Old 2012-07-12, 03:01   Link #1074
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One more question, the side story "There is but one ultimate way" is after vol 8 right? Is it right before vol 9?
It's supposed to be Post-Alicization (Hence Alice being there) but it's apparently non-canon according to the Author.

We won't really know if it fits until the series ends lol. XD
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Old 2012-07-12, 03:26   Link #1075
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It's supposed to be Post-Alicization (Hence Alice being there) but it's apparently non-canon according to the Author.

We won't really know if it fits until the series ends lol. XD
he already declare it as non cannon.
Hence the author probably already got a general idea on how he'll end Allicization.

btw, anyone read vol 10 yet?
Can someone summarize it in one go? I really wanna know what happened to Kirito.
Who's Alice anyway? A sentient AI like Yui?

ps: ugh, too many threads. Why do we need thread about spoiler & speculations for LN reader if we have this LN thread anyway? soo confusing.
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Old 2012-07-12, 03:53   Link #1076
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ps: ugh, too many threads. Why do we need thread about spoiler & speculations for LN reader if we have this LN thread anyway? soo confusing.
This is for Vol 10+, the other thread is "OH NOEZ THEY LEFT OUT THAT PART IN DA ANIMU" talk I think.

But yeah waiting for some plot summaries also. :3
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Old 2012-07-12, 04:09   Link #1077
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he already declare it as non cannon.
Hence the author probably already got a general idea on how he'll end Allicization.

btw, anyone read vol 10 yet?
Can someone summarize it in one go? I really wanna know what happened to Kirito.
Who's Alice anyway? A sentient AI like Yui?

ps: ugh, too many threads. Why do we need thread about spoiler & speculations for LN reader if we have this LN thread anyway? soo confusing.
"spoiler & speculations for LN reader" is for LN readers to speculate how the anime will adapt the future events not yet covered by the anime
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Old 2012-07-12, 05:11   Link #1078
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Wait, what's this I'm reading about Alicization being the final arc? Is it true?

I could've sworn I read somewhere that there was going to be one more arc after it. No, I can't remember the source of that though.
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Old 2012-07-12, 05:35   Link #1079
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Who's Alice anyway? A sentient AI like Yui?
yeah she is, as stated in Vol9 Prologue2, where u can read that ALICE means Artificial Labile Intelligence (although we dont know till now what the C and the E mean), but imo she is even a step wider than Yui cuz remember: originally Yui was under the orders of Cardinal, while u can clearly see that Alice isnt affected by the Taboo Index in any way from the beginning on, so she is a truelier (great fictional word XD) AI than Yui

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Wait, what's this I'm reading about Alicization being the final arc? Is it true?
it is the final arc indeed, but the author now started SAO : Progressive, which retells the story of Vol1 floorwise (dunno if he plans to write every floor, would be awesome ^^) so he will be around for some more time
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Old 2012-07-12, 06:31   Link #1080
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even then they'd have to show that it rises to the level of gross/criminal negligence, which is a hard sell considering the extraordinary circumstances.
...it's a pretty easy sell. As long as they're aware that there's a possibility of death that should be enough. They don't have to believe its true or even think it's likely. The fact that it's in a computer is basically irrelevant. If a man tells you that someone is tied up in the next room and that by pushing a button you'll electrocute them or whatever, then pushing the button is reckless. The fact that you have no proof that there's someone else in the other room is irrelevant.
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