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Originally Posted by kyp275
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?
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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.
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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 -
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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.
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PKing in a video game is neither.
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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.
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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.
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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.