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Subject: China prisoners internet gamin scam
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newt182 25.05.11 - 09:38pm
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 * +
newt182 25.05.11 - 09:38pm
corruption in his hometown, reckons the operation was even more lucrative than the physical labour that prisoners were also forced to do.Prison bosses make more money forcing inmates to play games than they do forcing people to do manual labour, Liu told the Guardian. There were 300 prisoners forced to play games. We worked 12-hour shifts in the camp. I heard them say they could earn 5,000-6,000rmb (470-570) a day. We didn't see any of the money. The computers were never turned off. * +
newt182 25.05.11 - 09:39pm
But it was the forced online gaming that was the most surreal part of his imprisonment. The hard slog may have been virtual, but the punishment for falling behind was real.If I couldn't complete my work quota, they would punish me physically. They would make me stand with my hands raised in the air and after I returned to my dormitory they would beat me with plastic pipes. We kept playing until we could barely see things, he said. * +
newt182 25.05.11 - 09:40pm
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newt182 25.05.11 - 09:41pm
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spartan2 25.05.11 - 09:45pm
The court sentences you to 12 hour shifts of playing videogames 
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gollum 25.05.11 - 09:46pm
Ah that explains why samco was playing Naughty Bear so much. He was in prison being punished 
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spartan2 25.05.11 - 09:47pm
No, he played that for fun. His sentence was for the good games * +
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