26 May 2011

China used prisoners in lucrative internet gaming work

If you ever read Solzhenitsyn's "First Circle", there is a novel begging to be written in this story. Chinese prisoners slaving to create virtual reality characters or obtain artefacts to sell online. Gold farming, it is called. Wonder what the true story is and how much has been inverted here for a quick headline. is this cybercrime?
[and if you havent read First Circle, why on earth not?]

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