{"id":10541,"date":"2011-08-07T14:47:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T18:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10541"},"modified":"2011-08-07T14:47:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T18:47:44","slug":"trawling-a-virtual-economy-to-support-a-non-viable-real-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/08\/07\/trawling-a-virtual-economy-to-support-a-non-viable-real-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trawling a virtual economy to support a non-viable &#8220;real&#8221; economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Give <a href=\"http:\/\/massively.joystiq.com\/2011\/08\/06\/north-korea-employing-mmo-hackers-to-fund-government\/\" target=\"_blank\">North Korea<\/a> some credit for finding a viable source of revenue:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s a dictator to do when his third-world economy is wheezing along on its last legs? Hack some video games, of course! According to a report in the <em>New York Times<\/em>, North Korea&#8217;s Kim Jong-il unleashed an army of young computer crackers on popular South Korean online gaming portals to find ways to make quick cash.<\/p>\n<p>South Korean authorities claim that a squad of approximately 30 hackers operated from a base in China and were given the mission of breaching online gaming servers (including those of the immensely popular <em>Lineage<\/em>) to set up bot factories and automated farming collectives. The digital booty was then sold to gamers for a reported $6 million over two years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give North Korea some credit for finding a viable source of revenue: What&#8217;s a dictator to do when his third-world economy is wheezing along on its last legs? Hack some video games, of course! According to a report in the New York Times, North Korea&#8217;s Kim Jong-il unleashed an army of young computer crackers on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,25,14,15],"tags":[279,192],"class_list":["post-10541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-economics","category-gaming","category-technology","tag-korea","tag-mmorpg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2K1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10542,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541\/revisions\/10542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}