Kaikkihan toki tietävät yhteyden lapsityövoiman ja eBayssä kaupattavien MMORPG-hahmojen välillä? Ette vai? En minäkään, kunnes nyt. Kuten niin usein ennenkin fiktio pohjautuu todellisuuteen..

That kind of money attracts attention. Digital sweatshops, businesses where Third World laborers play online games 24/7 in order to create virtual goods that can be sold for cash, are also on the rise. One such business, Blacksnow Interactive, actually sued a virtual world's creator in 2002 for attempting to crack down on the practice. The first of its kind to center on virtual goods, the case was eventually dropped.

(via Boing Boing)