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数字财产的范畴可包含软件、网站、下载内容、网络游戏账号、社交媒体账户甚至是电子邮件。仅在英国，人们持有的数字音乐总价值就可能超过90亿英镑(140亿美元)。 What happens to our digital property after we die? 人死如灯灭，数据之火烧何方？ Wait! I found his iTunes password 等下！我找到他的iTunes密码了！ LORNE GLADSTONE of Toronto is 58, but prudently pondering how to bequeath his digital property. Doing the paperwork after his parents’ death was a challenge. “When my time comes, I wonder if my children will even know what paper is,” he says. As a software developer, his virtual assets are both valuable and vital to his business. That exemplifies a problem. Online lives have increasing economic and sentimental value. But testamentary laws offer muddled and incomplete ways of bequeathing and inheriting them。 来自多伦多的洛恩•格莱斯顿现年58岁，但他如今已在慎重考虑自己数字财产的处置问题了。对格莱斯顿来说，当年同父母遗留下的书面文件打交道就曾颇费力气。他说道：“当我百年之后，我都怀疑我的子女们是否知道什么叫书面文件”。作为一名软件开发者，格莱斯顿的虚拟财产对其工作的价值及重要性不言而喻。这突显出一个问题：线上生活的经济与情感价值在不断上升，然而对遗赠者和继承者而言，遗嘱法律仍然语焉不详，不甚完善。 | 
