Time was when video games used to mean Mario Bros; when i would rather break the damn thing than hand it over to my sister...or some chinese farmer dude.
Time was when sweatshop workers meant young kids working and making your jeans when they actually should have been playing games. Unlike today when it means chinese youth getting paid 56 cents an hour to collect gold in WoWarcraft
Check these series of articles from NYTimes about video game farming: the booming industry where people collect and sell "gold" and other gaming previleges. I am sure that these morons could use a 12 step program!!
Nytimes article 1
Article 2
On another more positive note, I discovered Mercora, Latin for trade, the newest P2P kid on the block. Started by a McAffe exec along with others, this uses a neat loophole in the DMCA (digital copyrights act) to bring us P2P radio/webcast with the option of recording the song. Perfectly legal and free till a certain point (i think it is 1 hour per day, but not so sure). Anyways, i am hooked. Listened to Rosenrot, Rammstein's new album; release date in the U.S. unknown.
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