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WoW is used in Chinese Labor Camps
ElderRat
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"Prison bosses made more money forcing inmates to play games than they do forcing people to do manual labor," he said.
"There were 300 prisoners forced to play games. We worked 12-hour shifts in the camp. I heard them say they could earn 5000-6000rmb a day.
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First it was a single prison with 300 or so in-mates playing WoW. Then it was all chinese prisons. Now there's actual labor camps in China doing this?
Must be the fastest growing industry ever. In just a few hours they've seem to have gone from 300 to a full labor camp system.
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Apparently WoW is responsible for the chinese Economy being in good shape.
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While I dont play WOW I do play MMO and everyone knows that the in game currancy farmers are in china and other parts of the world. fact that people are forced to do this to make money isnt all that suprising. Whats bad is the companies that turn a blind eye and dont shut the sites down that sell in game currency and accounts. You can go on SOE web site and see sights that offer currency and accounts for sale.
Quoting figures from the China Internet Center, the paper says almost £1.2 billion ($1.65 billion) worth of virtual currencies was traded in China in 2008.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/26/chinese-prisoners-forced-play-world-warcraft-detainee-says/#ixzz1NV1Ey0FH
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There is already a thread on this topic.
Here : http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/316824/China-used-prisoners-in-lucrative-internet-gaming-work.html
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