World of WarCraft is a game made of many parts: resource gathering, combat, item-creation... and some of those parts are more fun than others. A company called MDY wanted to help with the dull bits of the game, and maybe assist gold farmers a little bit, by releasing a program called Glider that allows your character to continue collecting gold and leveling while you're not at your computer. In 2006, Blizzard and Vivendi showed up at an MDY employee's home and threatened legal action against the company, claiming Glider violates the Terms of Service of World of Warcraft as well as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. MDY then sued to establish its right to sell its software, causing Blizzard to file its own suit to stop MDY from selling the program. The issue is whether or not Glider is breaking any laws, and Blizzard is hoping that by stretching the boundaries of what constitutes copyright infringement, it can get MDY shut down. If Blizzard succeeds, it could set a very dangerous precedent.
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Perfect Summation:
"attempt to use contract to alter and displace those aspects of copyright law it does not like, while using copyright penalties to construe and enforce the terms of that alteration, is untenable, and the Court should not endorse it."
So...gamers are too lazy to do their own grinding, so they pay a company to do it, and it's somehow bad that Blizzard is trying to shut that company down?
I don't think people who cheat...er...I'm sorry, pay other companies to game for them deserve to be called gamers.
Lazy asses. I don't even like WOW, but I hope Blizzard shuts this company down.
They could offer cheap bots of their own and shut those companies down...
It would remedy the grinding and the external bot selling problem.
Doesn't matter cause if the "Bot" guy wins then blizzard will just make it simple to grind everything making bots nearly useless... They have dumbed this game down so many times it's staggering. Hopefully Age of Conan or Warhammer will help trump this juggernaut off its high horse. They make too much money and dont put out anything worth while anymore imho.
This should be handled as a case of Property Rights.
Its Blizzard's game. Running on Blizzard's servers. They should be able to choose 100% what goes on and what doesn't go on within their own property.
End of story.