The first case of stealing virtual currency
According to the news on February 10, 2018, on September 4, 2017, seven ministries and commissions of the people's Republic of China issued the notice on preventing the financing risk of token issuance, which regulates the issuance of tokens. In the notice, the nature of all kinds of tokens and "virtual currency" is clearly defined: it is not issued by the monetary authority, and it has no monetary attributes such as legal compensation and mandatory, It does not have the same legal status as currency and cannot and should not be used as currency in the market. Nevertheless, it is undeniable that all kinds of "virtual currency" still have a certain property value and are part of the property of the holder. So, how to identify the nature of the theft of such tokens
In order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of "virtual token" holders, the author intends to discuss such issues through a relevant news report and relevant casesstealing bitcoin
recently, a news report said that Haidian police in Beijing cracked a case of destroying computer information system. The suspect Zhong used his administrator's authority to modify the company's computer applications and steal 100 bitcoins. Before he could sell the stolen money, Zhong was arrested by the police. At present, Zhong was detained for the crime of destroying computer information system
it can be seen from the report that the police detained the perpetrator for stealing bitcoin on suspicion of damaging the computer information system. The crime of destroying the computer information system stipulated in Article 286 of the criminal law of our country refers to the act of deleting, modifying, adding or interfering with the functions of the computer information system in violation of the provisions of the state, resulting in the abnormal operation of the computer information system and serious consequences, or deleting, modifying or interfering with the data and application programs stored, processed or transmitted in the computer information system Modifying or adding operations with serious consequences, or deliberately making or spreading destructive programs such as computer viruses, which affect the normal operation of the computer system with serious consequences
In the author's opinion, this crime is one of the crimes of impairing social management order in Chapter 6 of the criminal law, that is, the legal interest protected by this crime is actually the public order of our society, not the property interests of the digital currency holders, which in fact denies the property value of digital currency, It is only protected as a data or system function in a computer system. The author thinks that there is some irrationality in this wayfirst of all, in the notice on the prevention of bitcoin risk issued in 2013, it is mentioned that bitcoin is not a real currency because it is not issued by the monetary authority and does not have such monetary attributes as legal compensation and compulsion. Bitcoin has four main characteristics: no centralized issuers, limited amount, no geographical restrictions and anonymity. Because it belongs to a specific virtual commodity in nature The notice also clearly mentioned that bitcoin does not have the same legal status as currency and should not be used as currency in the market. However, as a virtual commodity, the property value behind bitcoin cannot be ignored
Secondly, Article 127 of the general provisions of the civil law, which came into effect on October 1 last year, stipulates that if the law has provisions on the protection of data and network virtual property, such provisions shall prevail. Although only the protection of the network virtual property has made the principle provisions, but it can not be denied that this shows our country's attitude towards the protection of the network virtual property. Although there is no special law for the protection of data and network virtual property in China, from the perspective of the general provisions of civil law, it is predicted that there will be relevant legislation in the futurefinally, from the relevant cases, we can also see the recognition of the property attribute of virtual currency such as bitcoin in China's judicial practice. In April and may 2013, Liu premeditated to set up a bitcoin trading platform, so he recruited Jin and Huang (both sentenced) to jointly set up a "bitcoin" trading platform. During this period, Liu, Huang, Jin, Jin and the defendant he, in addition to other acts of directly stealing customers' funds, also frequently cashed RMB by selling customers' bitcoins, and transferred 120 bitcoins from the website. Finally, the court convicted and punished the defendant for fraud, and the bitcoin transferred by the defendant was also included in the property loss of the victim. Therefore, from the judicial cases, we can also get the recognition of the property attributes of virtual currency such as bitcoin
based on the above reasons, the author thinks that it may be unreasonable to regulate the theft of virtual currency only as the crime of damaging computer information system. We should face up to the hidden property value and consider the application of the crime of infringing property in China's criminal law. Only in this way can we effectively protect the legitimate rights and property of digital currency holders in China
the police detained the perpetrator for stealing bitcoin on suspicion of damaging the computer information system
the crime of destroying the computer information system stipulated in Article 286 of the criminal law of the people's Republic of China refers to the act of deleting, modifying, adding or interfering with the functions of the computer information system in violation of the state regulations, resulting in the abnormal operation of the computer information system and serious consequences, or the act of deleting, modifying, adding or interfering with the data and application programs stored, processed or transmitted in the computer information system Modifying or adding operations with serious consequences, or deliberately making or spreading destructive programs such as computer viruses, which affect the normal operation of the computer system with serious consequences
this crime is one of the crimes of impairing social management order in Chapter 6 of the criminal law, that is, the legal interests protected by this crime are actually the public order of our society, not the property interests of the digital currency holders. In fact, it denies the property value of digital currency, but only protects it as a data or system function in a computer system. The author thinks that there is some irrationality in this way
first of all, in the notice on preventing bitcoin risks issued in 2013, it is mentioned that bitcoin is not a real currency because it is not issued by the monetary authority and has no monetary attributes such as legal compensation and compulsion
bitcoin has four main characteristics: no centralized issuers, limited amount, no geographical restrictions and anonymity. Because it belongs to a specific virtual commodity in nature The notice also clearly mentioned that bitcoin does not have the same legal status as currency and should not be used as currency in the market. However, as a virtual commodity, the property value behind bitcoin cannot be ignored
secondly, Article 127 of the general provisions of the civil law, which came into effect on October 1 last year, stipulates that if the law has provisions on the protection of data and network virtual property, such provisions shall prevail
although only the protection of network virtual property has been made in principle, it can not be denied that it shows our attitude towards the protection of network virtual property. Although there is no special law for the protection of data and network virtual property in China, from the perspective of the general provisions of civil law, it is predicted that there will be relevant legislation in the future
finally, from the relevant cases, we can also see the recognition of the property attributes of virtual currencies such as bitcoin in China's judicial practice.
learned from the Xi'an Municipal Public Security Bureau's opening branch recently that the "3. 30" network hacker theft virtual currency case was broken down nearly half a year, and 3 suspect suspects were all arrested. The initial investigation found that the gang involved in the case reached 600 million yuan. p>
on March 30, 2018, the economic development branch of Xi'an Public Security Bureau received an alarm from the victim Zhang, claiming that his personal computer was suspected to have been illegally intruded, and a large number of virtual currencies such as bitcoin and Ethereum were looted, with a market value of over 100 million yuan. The Municipal Public Security Bureau quickly set up a special group to carry out the detection work
has been examined by the 3 suspects as hacker. Many illegal gains have been obtained through illegal invasion, control of company's enterprise and personal network system, and the amount of suspect involved has reached 600 million yuan. At present, the case is still under further investigation
in the form of game fraud, game account theft, etc
among them, the most serious case is the theft of virtual property. According to xinhuanet.com, Xiao Zhang, who is a junior this year, is an old player of the online game "dream journey to the west", but his online game equipment worth more than 30000 yuan was stolen overnight“ After the "theft case" happened, Xiao Zhang immediately took action, but the embarrassment was that he wanted to protect his rights, but it was difficult to do so. On the one hand, Xiao Zhang reported the case to the public security organ at the first time, but the public security organ refused to file the case because there was no clear provision in the law; On the other hand, Xiao Zhang contacted the game supplier, but Netease's reply was that this was a theft and should be reported to the public security organ first
coincidentally. In the virtual network world, QQ number theft is often encountered by users, and after the encounter, we often have nothing to do, more unexpectedly, it may also involve huge economic losses. According to the news morning post earlier, netizen Chen Xuejun found that a large number of netizens on his QQ number "98888" began to drop off the line. Within a few minutes, "98888" also dropped off the line and could not log in any more. Among his own QQ numbers, 46 were "hacked" one after another. Later, Chen Xuejun went to the police station of Shenzhen Public Security Bureau's high tech park to report the case. It is estimated that the 46 QQ numbers he lost were worth 600000 yuan
there are also some cases that show that if consumers can prove that the loss of virtual property causes damage to the real property rights, then the property rights are still protected by law. However, in such cases, e to the changeability of electronic evidence, its evidence effect is often greatly weakened, and e to technical reasons, many victims are difficult to collect enough evidence, which makes the relevant rights and interests protection more difficult
these events reflect that the protection of network virtual property is not perfect. Besides the loss of money, the biggest pain for users is anger and regret, and the greater embarrassment comes from the fact that it is difficult to protect their rights<
virtual property is also the legal property of citizens, which can not be infringed.
Ye Zhinian, associate professor of China University of political science and law, once wrote an article, pointed out that online virtual property can be purchased directly from game developers, or obtained from the virtual currency market, so virtual property has the attribute of general commodity, and its real value is self-evident
in this case, the virtual property that costs users a lot of time, effort and money should also be protected citizen property. But in contrast, players are "Heroes" in the virtual world and consumers in the real world, but they are often "weak" in the real world. The collision between virtual wealth and the real world is truly reflected here.
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