Second Life: Sex Business Sells for $50,000

Reports flying around the web today have a man paying $50,000 to buy a virtual sex business in an eBay auction. Information Week has a story, including an interview with the original owner Kevin Alderman, that outlines what Amsterdam is and why it is so valuable. To me, this is closer to Second Life's core than most of what we read on CNN. Hopefully people in each political party read this before setting up new in-game HQs.

One of the landmark businesses on Second Life, Amsterdam, sold on eBay Monday for $50,000 to a buyer located, appropriately enough, in the Netherlands, said the developer of the popular adult-oriented business.

Amsterdam's developer, Kevin Alderman of Tampa, Fla., put the site up for sale on eBay last week, and it sold at 6:34 a.m. PDT, according to the eBay listing. The buyer didn't bid; he just paid the asking price.

The full tale lives on Information Week.