World of Warcraft - the future of prison industries?

[the_tyrant]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...et-gaming-scam

As a prisoner at the Jixi labour camp, Liu Dali would slog through tough days breaking rocks and digging trenches in the open cast coalmines of north-east China. By night, he would slay demons, battle goblins and cast spells.
Liu says he was one of scores of prisoners forced to play online games to build up credits that prison guards would then trade for real money. The 54-year-old, a former prison guard who was jailed for three years in 2004 for "illegally petitioning" the central government about corruption in his hometown, reckons the operation was even more lucrative than the physical labour that prisoners were also forced to do.

what do you guys think?

oh, and top WOW accounts (max levels, top of the line items) can fetch thousands of usd in China

but if you think about it, if your paying someone else to play the game for you, aren't you missing the whole point?

but prison abuse like this is just insane, this is just another example of problems inside China's prison system