2008년 3월 31일 월요일

Real money and Cyber money

In Ward’s (2008) article, “How Cash can Change Online Games,” the author explains that trading the cyber money with the real money has become the hot issue. First, some of sellers who make the gold, which is the cyber money, sell to poor gamers who do not have enough items to get their goals in their game. Next, the author shows us that it can affect the surroundings of the game to spoil playing the game for other players in the same way spam messages, camping that monopolize the good place to make more the cyber gold and fraud spoil other plays’ playing in cyber space. Then some producers who invented a company to sell the cyber money with the real money said that it cannot give bad effects in the game. Moreover, it is just many players who made that the cyber money market like an auction, so there are not any differences between the real and cyber worlds. However, he states that money companies, which sell gold, cooperate with gamers who want to buy the cyber money with real money, even though the majority of players do not want to be involved with them.

Cyberspace and the real world are merging into as the same world. Some gamers used to buy the cyber money with the real money because they wanted more power and position in their game. So, there are several bad effects of selling the cyber money to players.

First, trading cyber money with real money can spoil the game’s surroundings for many gamers. Most people who like playing games want to make stress go away while playing. However, many gold sellers spoiled the game surrounding because they have to make more of the cyber money to get more of the real money. For example, farmers who make cyber money usually make a monopoly of places, which can be the best places to make more gold. It can make many players get more stress when playing the game.

Second, people are exposed to bad sellers can make a trick to get big money easily. Many people think that the cyber money is not real, but for some gamers it can be more meaningful than real money. Some players want to be a more powerful and strong character because many players have similar goals in the game world. So, if they do not have enough of the cyber money, they can buy the cyber money with real money. However, in this process, sellers can make fraud to make more profits, so many victims just try to trust them, and even calling the police to solve the fraud is not helpful for players, because it is not the real world’s money.

Last, trading the cyber money with real money can spoil the economic market. Nowadays, many companies try to jump into the cyber money business because some companies made a tremendous amount of money with that. It does not require a special place to work, and it does not need to pay lots of taxes for earning, because it is not real trade. For example, someone bought the cyber money with the real money. One side could get real money but the other side may get cyber money. It means that players just gave money to the company to get some images. Therefore, the company might not have to pay taxes for that.

In conclusion, trading the cyber money with the real money can make dangerous problems for economy and gamers. As our society is changing, many ways of making money are increasing. Some players want to buy cyber money to get more fun, and companies can sell the cyber money to fulfill their desire. However, in the trade bad sellers can make a fraud to make easy money. Therefore, we have to realize what problems are, and the government has to make a standard to make a better place for trading cyber money for players and sellers. Moreover, the owners who work the companies and the online system have to regulate a strict law or rules to take care of illegal trade in the online world as the government do in real world.

Reference

Ward, M. (2008) How cash can change online games. BBC NEWS.
Retrieved March 24, 2008, from http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/Technology/7226818.stm

2008년 3월 27일 목요일

Our society needs the online world.

In Twist’s (2005) article, “Controversy Blights UN Net Summit,” the author criticizes that controlling the use of the internet in Tunis has become a problem and is against freedom of speech. First, the author introduces the organization like UN that tried to help poor countries through benefits of information and communication technology. Next, the author shows us that many people who know how important of sharing information is argued about what happened in Tunis. She explains to us several opinions of different countries that disputed freedom of expression in the internet. Then, the author shows the US said that the Tunisian government made a wrong policy which prohibits important parts to society from taking benefits from freedom of expression. However, she explains the other side, like China, which that agreed controlling and limiting online access is necessary for preventing serious crimes. Besides, she says that sharing information and communication is important to develop into an information society. In conclusion she states that it can be very hot issue to limit the right of freedom of expression for many countries, speech and sharing information in internet, but it is important to make international standards.

Have you ever thought that someone could force you to forfeit your right? Everybody has right to know certain things. There are several reasons why internet and any online access is important to us.

First, nowadays internet is the most important system in which we can get any information and knowledge. Many people use it in school, office and home to get information easily. For example, most students get information for learning from an online system. Furthermore, teachers also use online systems to teach students more efficiently. The internet system has replaced our source of knowledge that is from books, and it makes our life change easy and with variety. If someone controls the use of the internet system, it can make problems in education such as lack of material to expand knowledge and skill. So, internet system is very important system to get information in our education sector now.

Second, everyone has the right to get and know information. It is a basic right like freedom of sharing information. Internet system is a huge virtual world of information and knowledge, and most of it is open for everybody to get. It means that everyone can use it to get any information. Some countries like China control it to prevent crime. They said that the online system can be used by criminals, and it makes more crime. However, it is still against human right. Moreover, controlling the online system cannot be a good solution for reducing the rate of crime. It can make more illegal systems which criminals use to do something bad. It is just against freedom of sharing information. So, it cannot be controlled by anybody, because everybody has freedom to know something.

Last, the online system can be a good solution to making a better economy in our society. Sharing information and communication is needed by our society to solve the economic crisis and any problems. People who have suffered from no knowledge about their problems can get tremendous information in an online system. For example, South Korea has the experience that many parts of economy had suffered from long-term recession. So, they followed the Japanese’s example to make the recession go away, and in this process the online system helped them to get information easily. They gathered information about the solution that the Japanese used to make recession go away. If the government controlled getting information in the internet, it could be impossible to make recession go away easily. So, the online system is helpful to make a better economic situation in our society.

In conclusion, now our society needs the internet system to expand education and economic sectors. Huge information in the online world can help us with how to deal with any suffering and problem. It can help many people make better any parts of their life. This means that the online system can give more knowledge for students, teachers and any workers. Furthermore, nobody should control the use of the internet because it is a basic human right. If someone controls using the online system because of certain bad effects, it can make more different bad systems illegally, such as an expanding black market. Therefore, the internet is very important to us, and it is very useful in our society.

Reference

Twist, J. (2005). Controversy Blights UN Net Summit. BBC News
Retrieved March 19, 2008, from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4450474.stm