My (not so) amazing life

I just read a very interesting arcicle on tobold's blog it has an interview with a WoW gold seller, and while i myself have never bought gold, nor thought seriously about buying gold, the prospect of people making money selling ones and zeros has always been interesting to me.

If you look in the comments left on that particular post by tobold, people flame him for making the post into a shameless advertisement. I completely disagree, while the post may advertise the particular company selling the gold, i do not think that Tobold's intention was to show the "other side" of the gold selling story. And i agree with many of what i believe he was trying to get across.

Gold sellers are still paying costomers, they pay for the subscription and the CD key like everyone else, and while people say that their actions ruin the economy of wow, i have yet to see my local auction house listing linen cloth for 100 gold a stack, so i can say with fair certainty that the economy in wow is stable, and will stay stable for a long time.

There's also the argument that the lawyers of Blizzard make, that gold sellers are selling copywrighted things, and i think that's a completely rediculous argument. If I offered my gold to my friend in exchange for money or a service (let's say, mowing my lawn) and he accepts and the transaction is made, no money was given over the internet or through a credit card, so blizzard had no way of knowing that this transaction took place, yet when a gold seller uses the internet to sell gold they get banned for it. Gold is going to be transfered between characters no matter what blizzard does.
Also the thought of virtual gold being copywrighted is completely rediculous it's not like blizzard can take away your gold for no reason because it belongs to them. Not only would they lose a paying costomer by doing that, but the gold doesn't really belong to them! They didn't make it, they just created the ones and zeros that it took to make that an object in the game.

Anyways i probably won't ever buy any gold in the near future, but who knows? Until next post!