China used prisoners as gold farmers

The solution is simple: Don't buy virtual gold. And Blizzard should be way more vigilant in shutting down accounts which do so.

Virtual Gold has become cheaper and cheaper over time (you can't fail to notice this, if you're standing around in a city you see all communication channels spammed with offers, which mention current pricing). If we assume the Law of Supply and Demand works for the virtual gold economy too, we could conclude that supply is rising, and vice-versa that Blizzard is not doing enough to stop the suppliers and gold farmers.

Charles Stross's commentary, though it doesn't really add all that much: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/05/cruel-an...