RickyP0602 wrote:While this might be the way life should work, life will not work that way 99% of the time. The interwebs can be a difficult place to navigate, especially if someone knows what they are doing, 99% of the time police will lul at you and nothing will happen.
It takes an epic hacker to hack somebody without any trace whatsoever. Most hackers don't get caught because people don't realize they've been hacked, but stealing a game account is kinda too obvious for that to work. Either way, if you don't have any trojans on your PC and you get hacked, your ISP is shit and you should sue them.
But seriously, hacking somebody's computer is a metric fuckton of work, and nobody with the skills to do it would find it worth his time to hack a private computer just to steal an MMO account. Hacking an MMO server could be worth it if you get away undetected, if it's WoW or some other MMO that you can make money on.
So, if we're talking how the real life works, it's virtually impossible to get your account stolen if you're not stupid about it. I'd say you have a better chance winning a lottery while getting struck by lightning in a plane crash than having your account genuinely hacked. So I think your welfare analogy doesn't really work - you'd have to have one genuine poor guy and millions of system abusers to make it comparable.