Playing WOW is prison labor.

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Isaac
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Playing WOW is prison labor.

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http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/ ... inee-says/
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.


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Well that's...new.
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this seems too wacky to be true... it's like a southpark episode.
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this kind of gold farming has been around for a long time. That's where those 'buy WoW gold' ads come from.
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Whoosh…
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Spidey wrote:Whoosh…
You aren't allowed to make brilliant Led Zeppelin references AND make sense of something like this, the two qualities just don't inhabit the same person! Rest assured, if it was a contest you won.

Anyway...I wonder if you can tax WoW gold? And if a player dies can you estate tax his family for the market value of his WoW gold? Liberals in Washington DC want to know!
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