The law faces issue of virtual inheritance

BEIJING - When people die, their relatives members can inherit their belongings, but does this law apply to the virtual world?

A woman surnamed Wang in Shenyang, Liaoning province, faced this thorny problem when she failed to get access to photographs and letters in her late husband's Internet mailbox because she did not know the password, Chinese Business Morning View reported on Wednesday.

The man, surnamed Xu, died in a traffic accident and Wang wanted to get the photos and messages in his postbox at QQ, an instant messaging tool of Tencent, because they recorded the couple's happy times.