WoW reads your hard-drive

WoW isn't exactly a resource hog so you could just buy a cheap used system to run it. Its simpler than virtualization and its guaranteed secure. (Come to think of it, if you need security for your emails and stuff then why not run those on that cheap machine?)

It seems that many of the readers just want to have the one humungous system, like a home mainframe. (Very old school, that -- you're even getting echoes of those old mainframe operating systems with today's Windows (and even, I'm sorry to say, Linux).)

"That is not to say that Blizzard would knowingly and willingly break any law."

I would like to point out that in Virtual Spaces, the Law is always an Ass sat upon ITs Ass too.

And the Rules of Great Games Play [ARGs] are Simply that those Playing above the Law, exercising their Global Operating Devices should remain Untouchable by Virtue of their XXXXCeptional Plays. 

Do you not consider that Media, by Virtue of what IT Shares, is in Default Control of the Future and it is only the dire state of Content and proposed Direction, which renders the Chaotic State of the World.

Might I suggest that Media seeks IT Champions who can Beta package Reality as a Simple Better Text and Contextual Story which all they have to do is carry/report on/investigate...... as All the Real Work will already have been done by ITs Author/Zero dDay XSSer.

I trust in GODs that that is not difficult to understand even if it should be beyond any individual's ability to actually create the Reality, Virtually. QuITe obviously, as this is being Shared, the requisite abilities are available in Others.

Or would you care to waste Time in this Virtual Space Age and argue here. Constructive Criticism along with Third Party Positive Reinforcement always Gratefully received. Simpleton Negativity will be cached as trash to identify the Persistent Fool/Puppet Tool


Reading the WoW EULA is useless anyway. It has a clause that basically says "we can do whatever we want and if you don't like it, we hate you, no refunds".

Run it in a virtual machine, that you can reinitialize before every game session. They won't be able to bypass that, or even detect it.

I'd better prep my bomb-proof bunker and get my tin-foil hat ready, it looks like they are coming for us at last!

The EULA clearly states that WoW comes with this stuff, so surely if people don't like it, they should hit the "Uninstall" button.

Security risk my arse.

I met a man who had read a EULA once, he was a tired old geezer, I could'a sworn he was eighty. I asked him why he done it, and he said: "But I had to, in order to install Office on my computer." in a creaky old voice, like a tree talking. "But once I'd done it, my skin dried in, this big white beard just came and all my hair fell off." Man, that's terrible I said sympathetically, but you could have just clicked I Understand Blah Blah and gotten on with it. "Yes," he croaked, "but that would be lying, I'm an honest man." Ah, I said, that explains it.

One of the big problems of blizzard are

-protecting the game of spambots , and bots 
it is sad but blizzard wow players are beeing massivly and agresivly targeted.So bot and third party dectection is high on there to do list where would you draw the line fight back and enter into a grey moral area or suffer.I remember when more mobs then actual player where in some zone.

-every single wow gamer out there is beeing targeted by hackers these days none stop, it is like weekly news that you meet some player that has been hacked.With there account gold etc beeing sold by the same bots.

-wow traffic is placing a enourmous cost on there networks and i'm pretty sure for every 10 players there is one bot :(

I 'm glad i am not a wow developer every day D-day.

I love EULAs with their 3-4 words per line, 1000 lines and fixed sized boxes. Makes them impossible to read, but I would bet makes it easier to have them thrown out in court. IMNAL.

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both"

Same as the people complaining about the copy protection on Bioshock, the reason people complain about this isn't because it's ever been misused, but because it is stopping them from cheating. The person who posted "get around it", that method would be fine. They aren't trying to put anything on your system, they aren't trying to read your e-mails. They are looking for the people who have the script to run around and kill weak things all day and rack up gold (Gold Farming), and the people who are running programs to cheat the system. If you've ever played the game, you'll see that this actually is a good thing (after some botting farmer killsteals the mob you've been working on... twenty times.

You can tell a crack-head that his crack has Anthrax in it but he'll keep on smoking...