论盗窃虚拟财产的定性

以非法获取计算机信息系统数据罪定性盗窃虚拟财产的行为虽然符合罪刑法定原则的要求,但该罪名不能反映犯罪目的,盗窃虚拟财产的行为也没有扰乱公共秩序,虚拟财产具有价值,也可脱离受害者的控制,并能被盗窃者实际控制,符合盗窃罪的要求,盗窃者如果具有永久性剥夺受害人虚拟财产的犯罪意图的,应该以盗窃罪追究其刑事责任,域外的实践也将盗窃虚拟财产的行为定性为盗窃罪.盗窃虚拟财产的行为也可能构成盗窃罪、侵犯通信自由罪、非法获取计算机信息系统数据罪与破坏计算机信息系统罪,属想象竞合犯.

On the Nature of Virtual Property Theft

The crime of destroying computer information system being definited as crime of theft conforms to the principle of a legally prescribed punishment for a specified crime,the crime does not reflect the aim of crime,stealing virtual property doesn’t disturb public order.Virtual property has value,and can be controlled by thieves actually,also can be taken away from the victim,which conforms to the requirements of theft.If thieves have criminal intent to permanently deprive the virtual property from victim,we ought to investigate its criminal responsibility of larceny.Stealing virtual property also is characterized as larceny in foreign practice.Theft behaviors of the virtual property may also constitute theft,violation of communication freedom,unlawfully taking computer information system datum,or the crime of destroying computer information system,which belongs to the imaginative joinder of offenses.