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  1. Re:I have the right by Danga · · Score: 1 · on Blizzard Seeks to Block User Rights, Privacy

    Wowglider didn't cause anyone to violate the ToS, the person using it made a consious choice to do so. What tool they used to do it is irrelevant. If I stab someone to death with a steak knife, would you say the maker of the steak knife caused me to murder someone?

    While I agree that people should be liable for their own choices I think your steak knife arguement is a little flawed. A steak knife has a known main purpose which is to allow a person to eat tasty steak, it can be used to stab a person and commit a murder but that is not what its main purpose is.

    Wowglider on the other hand has the main purpose of providing an automated way to play a WoW character which is clearly a violation of the TOS for a WoW account. Even on the front page of the Wowglider website they state "Glider is a tool that plays your World of Warcraft character for you, the way you want it. It grinds, it loots, it skins, it heals, it even farms soul shards... without you."

    Take a look yourself: http://www.wowglider.com/

    Wowglider would be more like having someone sell landmines to anybody and everybody. A landmine is made for the sole purpose of killing people and it serves no other purpose. Obviously there are laws against selling landmines to everybody (similar to the TOS for WoW not allowing automation) and anyone providing that means should be liable for their actions.

  2. Re: Improve PvP by AlexMax2742 · · Score: 1 · on World of Warcraft - The Burning Crusade Review
    Many of the new zones now have a world PvP objective, in which one side, Horde/Alliance, needs to capture and hold certain points. Some of these objectives have interesting mechanics - the PvP point Halla in Nagrand has gryphon roosts that allow you to bomb out the center of the flag point before moving in. Fighting at these points rewards you with battle tokens that can be turned in for good armor and the like, and the side that holds a PvP objective often gains a zone-wide buff for their side as long as they hold it, like a +5% damage bonus. It's a bit of a pain on some PvE servers where the Alliance has a large population side, but it's otherwise good times with less BG queue.

    I heard about that. It sounds fun, but that seems to me like more of a distraction than anything else, because you still have to level up somehow. You might think this is nuts, but Guild Wars pulled this off excillently... Ah, yes, because everyone knows about another MMO that does things better than WoW.

    And I don't see how lumping me in with everyone else is a valid point at all. Seriously, would you want to pay 15 dollars a month for a game that was simple enough to the point of a bot being able to play, unaided?

  3. legal issues by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Blizzard Lawyers Visit Creator of WoW Glider

    http://www.wowglider.com/legal/Complaint1.pdf

  4. Description? by TravisW · · Score: 4, Informative · on Blizzard Lawyers Visit Creator of WoW Glider

    Some of us here (me included) are interested in legal issues but don't play WoW. A better summary would have included a description of the program, so that those of us who don't keep up with this niche have to fish around through links.

    From the (admittedly linked) WoW Glider Homepage. "WoW Glider is a tool that plays your World of Warcraft character for you, the way you want it. It grinds, it loots, it skins, it heals, it even farms soul shards... without you."

    I don't need the karma, but Glider FAQ

    -T

  5. The scammers are scamming slashdot by WallyGrump · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Linux Users Banned From World of Warcraft?

    This is the site where all the scammers are crying about their bans.
    http://forums.wowglider.com/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=16/
    This is a program that automates warcraft. Blizzard can no doubt just cough up $25 and get themselves a copy. People on this slashdot aren't stupid. If blizzard had access to the program and warden has full access to the operating system then nothing can hide. If it tries to hide, blizzard can reverse engineer the thing and find how it hides. No false positives, no mixing up linux users - they can without doubt target such a program. No need for blizzard to seek out strange memory access or whatever - they can just go straight for the program.

    The thing is many people put years of work into their characters and have been caught cheating. Now they're trying to scam their way out of their problems - like theyve scammed their way through the game. Don't beleive these idiot posters.

  6. All your answers are here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on World of Warcraft Teaches the Wrong Things?

    http://www.wowglider.com/

    - Right....wrong....I'm the guy with the gun.

  7. Re:Let's bash Sony by HavokDevNull · · Score: 4, Informative · on Blizzard's Warden Thwarted by Sony's DRM Rootkit

    The reason the "link to Blizzard" is because the guys over at www.wowsharp.net thought to use the rootkit first, and it is so easy to use that anyone who can rename a file can use it. And WOW is very popular in the first place (4 million users now), so this impacts a bunch of people.

    Another cheat program http://www.wowglider.com/ is also getting around WOW's Warden technology by running WOW in a normal user profile in xp, removing access to said user in the wowglider folder, then running wowglider as an admin account. But more than likely you could just install Sony's rootkit, rename your wowglider folder and do the above step for double protection against Warden detecting wowglider.

    My point being Sony and First4Internet are saying that the rootkit does not compromise a system's security, when in fact it can and does. And the Cheaters are proving it now, next will be the virus writers.