Blizzard WoWs judge in bot case
Glider bot RAMmed
GAME maker Blizzard has won a summary judgement motion against World of Warcraft bot maker MDY in a landmark copyright case.
The outfit also was backed by the court over a tortious interference claim, which is basically a charge of messing with customers' heads. It means that the only thing that Blizzard has to go to trial over is how much cash MDY has to stump up.
MDY is probably regretting bringing the case to court in the first place. It wanted a declaratory judgement that its WowGlider (now MMOGlider) bot software did not infringe Blizzard’s copyright.
The court ruled that Blizzard owns a valid copyright in the game client software and granted a licence for people to use it. Glider falls outside the scope of the licence established because it involves copying parts of the software to RAM.
MDY claimed that loading a copy of the software into RAM was protected and was backed by Public Knowledge, a digital rights advocacy group. µ
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Never Played World of Warcrack
I heard it was addictive. MMO's don't appeal to me. Baulder's Gate, Icewind Dale, KOTOR and the likes were the bomb and no I do not need no stinking trophy, hear that Sony. No, I won't keep paying every month to play either, hear that Micro$oft!