Comment by ALittleLight

I've wondered about things like this with video games. I played RuneScape a while back and one of the things my brother and I would do is lure unsuspecting players into the wilderness to kill them and take their stuff. That stuff, RuneScape gold, weapons, and armor, has some real world value. We took it from other people, often by lying to them (e.g. "follow me into the wilderness, I'll show you something cool"). Could this somehow be construed as a crime? And if not, because everything we did was permissable actions in the game, how could any computer hacking be a crime?