| Written by Mark C. Barlet, on 27-03-2008 21:15 |
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 I hate bots, so I love this story.
Blizzard has filed a lawsuit against Michael Donnelly, the maker of
the MMO Glider program. This little application saves you from the
pesky hassle of having to play World of Warcraft on your own. Let's
be honest, what's the fun having to play a game, wouldn't you rather
let your game play itself.
So what is the argument...
Well in papers filed in the Central
District of California, Vivendi games, owners of the Blizzard folks,
argue that the program infringes on it's copyright, and may harm the
game. In the papers filed with the courts they say, "Blizzard's
designs expectations are frustrated, and resources are allocated
unevenly, when bots are introduced into the WoW universe, because
bots spend far more time in-game than an ordinary player would and
consume resources the entire time."
Now Mr. Donnelly is saying that the
program he created does not infringe on their copyright because he is
not copying the game. Blizzard disagrees, saying that in order to
avoid the anti-botting software Blizzard uses Mr. Donnelly's software
stores a copy of the game in memory, and while temporary, is still
very much a copy. It goes without saying that this is a violation of
the EULA, but that is another matter.
So what is at stake you may ask? Well
over 100,000 people are to lazy to play their own game and instead
played $25 bucks or more (there is a $5 a month subscription fee for
"additional features"). So at the very least there is $2.5
million.
Recommend this article... Last update: 04-04-2008 18:29
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