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Old 05-26-2011, 12:51 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Chinese Prisoners Forced to Play World of Warcraft, Detainee Says - FoxNews.com

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A former prisoner of a Chinese labor camp claims guards are forcing detainees to play online games as part of a huge money-making scam.
Liu Dali told The Guardian website that guards traded the credits inmates built up playing games such as World of Warcraft for money.
"The computers were never turned off."
"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.
"We didn't see any of the money. The computers were never turned off."
Dali -- not his real name -- is aged 54 and was sent to Jixi re-education camp in Heilongjiang province in northeast China, in 2004.
He said he would spend his days either breaking rocks or assembling car seat covers and his nights playing computer games.
Dali said that if he didn't complete his credit quota, the guards would punish him: "They would beat me with plastic pipes. We kept playing until we could barely see things."
The building up and trading of game credits is known as gold farming. Millions of gamers around the world pay real money for the credits in order to save hours of playing time.
Gold farming is rampant in China and other developing nations. Many Chinese gamers have full-time jobs as gold farmers but The Guardian story highlights the first time it has been practiced in labor camps.
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.
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It's not a bad thing. We all chubbed a little on that one. The Reps really needed to be called out on their obstructionist ways. It's like they're stuck in Gingrich mode, and can't get out. They really need to reinvent themselves, bring in some new people, and really REALLY become the party of self-reliance and small government they'd like us to believe they are. Right now, they just seem like a bunch of pies.
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I think assuming it's racist because they're Chinese, and involved with computers - is the real racism...
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Old 05-26-2011, 01:14 PM   #3 (permalink)
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i lol'ed irl pretty hard
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Lol maybe you assumed 'cos it was Fox news it might be racist Being .

I lolled anyway.
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