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- 20% Tax Rate on Virtual Currency Brokering in China?
- New Paper on UGC
- Virtual field experiments in WoW
- Habbo introduces a dual currency virtual economy model (updated with pictures)
- Selling branded items in Gaia: Snoop's Dobermans and Timberlake's fedora
- Benjamin Duranske's final post at VERN: joining Pillsbury's virtual law practice
- Reasonings for virtual currency implementations in business models of free-to-play worlds
- Virtual Goods News Launched
- Mindtrek '08 & Revenue model innovation in Chinese online game market
- Social games developer estimates size of U.S. virtual goods market at $200 million
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- New Paper on UGC
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- EMERGING PIRACY THREAT - Realtime Video Piracy Problem for Sports / Link to Illegal Wagering?
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