This is just a bit bizarre:

A Chinese court has ordered an online video game company to return hard-won virtual property, including a make-believe stockpile of bio-chemical weapons, to a player whose game account was looted by a hacker.

Li Hongchen, 24, had spent two years, and 10,000 yuan ($1,210) on pay-as-you-go cards to play, amassing weapons and victories in the popular online computer game Hongyue, or Red Moon, before his "weapons" were stolen in February, the Xinhua news agency said on Friday.

In a day and age where online gamers actually eke out a living by selling their virtual property on Ebay, it was only a matter of time before legal disputes cropped up. In this players defense, he did try to get the gaming company to restore his property and/or punish the hacker who stole it from him. They decided not to act, so he took it to the courts.