In the light of the Blizzard/Glider dance, this seems more direct, and would only happen in China: Gold farmers were arrested and charged with “unfair revenue distribution”. More info at PlayNoEvil:
Turn up the Irony Meter to 11. After all, with all of the complaints in the US about gold farming, it takes the Chinese to stand up and do something about it.
Yep, police in China has arrested 2 men for running a World of Warcraft gold farming operation and charged them with “unfair revenue distribution” (CHINESE READER ALERT - what in the world is “unfair revenue distribution”?).
The two men ran the operation for 7 months and earned 1.4 Million RMB (just over US$200,000). They had 20 computers and 20 employees (no shifts, I guess) and were based in Chengdu’s Shuangliu county. The men were targeting The9‘s China-based World of Warcraft operation… I’m not sure if this makes their revenue more impressive or not.
(Chengdu Evening News via Pacific Epoch)
While this is a more straight-forward approach to handling “unwanted” activities, I’m pretty glad that the US have a slightly more complex judicial system…
[QUOTE=Leord;4124755] unfair revenue distribution
Sounds like tax evasion to me, can’t see the Chinese government (or any government for that matter) getting too worked up about anything else.