hey include the argument that since individual users are making the currency they are counterfeiting (plausible legal argument), or that each individual is acting as a bank(weak), or that all users of Bitcoin together make up an organization for purposes of RICO (plausible).
Counterfeiting is less plausible than the banking claim, not more.
Given that WOW has it’s own virtual currency, with a fairly brisk USD-WOW exchange existing (albeit in violation of a EULA), I’d say the counterfeiting claim does indeed seem very unlikely. Certainly, I’ve never heard of actual criminal charges—the few Google results for arrests seem to be from other countries or other crimes that just incidentally used WOW Gold.
Counterfeiting is less plausible than the banking claim, not more.
Given that WOW has it’s own virtual currency, with a fairly brisk USD-WOW exchange existing (albeit in violation of a EULA), I’d say the counterfeiting claim does indeed seem very unlikely. Certainly, I’ve never heard of actual criminal charges—the few Google results for arrests seem to be from other countries or other crimes that just incidentally used WOW Gold.