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[Greg Miller]

Matthew Mihaly wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Greg Miller wrote:
> > Speaking of which, I assume everyone's heard about the AOL lawsuit...
> > Are you worried about being sued (assuming the credits aren't worth
> > minimum wage, I'd have to worry about the fallout, at least for those of
> > us accepting money and operating inside the US)?
> 
> I haven't actually. Could you elaborate? That's potentially fairly serious
> for a number of pay games if I understand the gist of what you are saying.
> (Achaea, Simutronics, and Avalon, at least, all have people doing 'work'
> who don't get paid the equivalent of minimum wage).

Basically, some AOL guides who were unpaid volunteers became disgruntled
with AOL as a whole and filed a class action suit on the grounds that
all non-profit organizations are required to pay minimum wage. For a
game, you could argue that whatever they're doing is for their own
enjoyment, but if you give any compensation to them, that would probably
look like work to a court. I found it highly alarming since, at the
least, I planned to accept donations without getting nonprofit status.

> particularly large game (I'm not sure how easy it would be to influence
> this sort of thing with 1000 people on at once).

Since you raise the subject, how many do you typically have these days?
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