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Toady we added an extra Blacklist for current gold sellers on Adsense next of the overall list we already have. The new list will be checked and updated weekly. Because the overall list has over 200 sites in it, it cannot be used in Google Adsense anymore. There for the new and smaller list has been created, and it will change more frequently.

Credits to BBR for the initial list.

The website Igeclassaction.com is now www.mmocitizen.com.

In their words

We will also be expanding the scope of the site during the coming weeks and months to provide the community with additional information of interest to MMO consumer issues, specifically as it pertains to the protection of the legal rights of MMO consumers to enjoy virtual worlds.

I’ll be watching this site to see what kind of info we see produced here.

MMO-Gamer.com has posted an article on the IGE and Affinity Media relationship.

Recently uncovered court documents (PDF) have revealed a potentially damning piece of information with regards to Affinity Media:

Defendant, IGE U.S., LLC n/k/a Affinity Media Holdings, LLC, (“IGE US”)

“N/k/a” is a legal term meaning “now known as.” In other words, according to United States law, IGE and Affinity Media are one in the same.

Steven Crews goes on to talk about how Affinity Media has tried to break the ties with IGE, but apparently the US Federal Court System still finds them to be one and the same.

We had previously reported about the Class Action Lawsuit that has been filed against IGE on behalf of all WoW players.  I just wanted to follow up with a link to their website where you can keep up to date on what is happening:

 http://www.igeclassaction.com/

While this article focuses mainly on cheating, it also looks at the impact of RMT as well. It is an interesting read, and being on CNN, further shows that video gaming, and all that comes with it, is becoming more and more mainstream.

Here are some of the highlights of the article:

• Many video game valuables can be sold for real money
• Some players use exploits, known as cheats, to get advantage
• Six-thousand pieces of gold can sell for $420 in “World of Warcraft”
• Intel, other companies, working on ways to root out cheaters

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/10/01/videogame.cheating.ap/index.html

We have also updated our Google Adsense RMT Blacklist, so be sure to update your filters!

We have been wanting to add a Google Adsense gold and powerleveling blacklist for a while now. Thanks to Chris of http://www.downfallguild.org we have a basis to start from!

You can view our new blacklist here:

Google Adsense Gold Blacklist

If you have any additional sites to add, please let us know about them! Send an email to blacklist @ nogold.org!