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    My question involves business law in the state of: Nevada.

    Recently, an online poker was opened [no need to name it]. This site uses play money, but the only way to get this money is by giving the administrator "gold piece" in a virtual game called Runescape.

    In other words, you pay the administrator 1,000,000 gold pieces (which you must earn in the game) and he gives you 1,000,000 chips in this virtual casino. Then the player can player poker and cash out at any time and the administrator will pay out the player. If, for example, the player turns the 1,000,000 chips into 5,000,000, then the administrator will pay out the player 5,000,000 gold pieces in Runescape.

    While it is against the rules of Runescape to trade your gold pieces for real life items (it's called RWT, or Real World Trading) and they will ban your account if they catch you doing it, could this act actually result in legal action being taken against the website which is condoning this kind of behavior?

    Another piece to this puzzle is the fact that Runescape gold is actually worth a dollar value. Although, once again, it is against the Runescape rules to sell your gold for money, people do it anyways. Once again, if you are caught doing this your account will be banned, but do they really have any legal position when a player sells a virtual item for real life currency to someone else?

    Are there any things one should consider when making a website like the one above (in terms of TOS, etc.)

    Thanks,
    Tyler

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