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Blizzard Officially Files Against WoW Glider
Marcus Eikenberry writes "Blizzard and Vivendi today filed against MDY
Industries, the makers of the 'WoW Glider' software. Glider allows World of Warcraft players to 'play' while away from the keyboard; the software moves the player's avatar along a set path, following a complex set of instructions dictated in advance. Blizzard is seeking injunctive relief and money damages against MDY. What that means is they want him to stop the production of WoW Glider and they want him to pay them damages. Blizzard believes that Glider infringes on their intellectual property. They believe Glider allows players to cheat, giving them an unfair advantage and that they believe Glider encourages Blizzard customers to breach their contracts for playing the game. Last they claim that Glider is designed to circumvent copyright protections."
One Third of Germans Support National Socialism, Disbelieve Holocaust New Poll Shows Jewish Power On Wane Despite Repressive Laws 2/19/2007 10:07:28 AM Discuss this story in the forum Overthrow Staff Berlin, Germany -- One third of Germans say that National Socialism and Adolf Hitler were "mostly positive" for Germany and "Entirely Disbelieve" the Holocaust lie, whereas a majority think Hitler was mostly positive and 45% think that the Holocaust is mostly untrue, a new poll of 3,000 Germans by the Metropol Institute indicates. 55% of Germans said that Hitler and National Socialism were "mostly positive" or "a mix of positive and negative" for Germany and 45% said that they either "had reservations" or "disbelieved entirely" the Jewish claim that a "Holocaust" occurred during World War II. Germans hold these beliefs despite repressive legislation in Germany that makes it illegal to advocate National Socialism or disbelieve in the Holocaust. An additional 85% of Germans said that "reparations" payments to the Zionist occupation in Palestine should terminate an 53% that Holocaust lies should not longer be taught in German schools, with 26% uncertain and only 21% in favor. The poll, taken last week in response to the Zundel imprisonment, had a margin of error of 2.1%. It was unclear if it had yet been reported on in the German press, who comissioned it. The poll shows the ineffectiveness of Jewish lies and repressive legislation on the thoughts of the people. While the Jewish owned and influence media, combined with the power of the German state, has been able to achieve complete control of the government while arresting and imprisoning political dissident, their brainwashing has had little impact on the actual thoughts and beliefs of the people.
Warcraft II was good, Kali made it groundbreaking. So much so, Blizzard was shipping Kali on the Warcraft II CD, and ultimately it inspired Blizzard to create Battle.net. Battle.net was good, but not great - and Bnetd was created. Did Blizzard embrace this new contribution from their loyal fanbase? Of course not, they sued them into oblivion. I owned every Blizzard title and expansion up to Warcraft 3. They haven't gotten a nickel of my money since.
Let me start this post of with one basic statement.
Blizzard is out to make money. Their support has sucked since day one, and with the increased "relationship" with WoW glider, they have turned plenty of profit.
Let me try my best to outline how I conclude this.
I and my best friend have been banned by Blizzard Entertainment. As well as unbanned.
Months ago, so many I forget exactly when, but this was very momentous and can be easily looked up, Blizzard updated their Warden detection method. This method is a program ran on the client's end specifically to scan for programs that could violate their TOS/EULA/etc. There are many details on this program, but it is still not 100% known as to what exactly it does, or scans, etc. There are those who argue it has the full ability to even read your full MSN messages, but that is not my point. When they proceeded to update their Warden detection method, in a period of 48 hours, over 100,000 accounts were banned; me and my best friend were one of these many. Let me emphasise the importance of this activity.
Blizzard has a graduated mechanism in place to punish clients in the hope they learn that what they did was inappropriate. Good, people should know what they did wrong if they did something wrong, and how to correct it. The account penalties section is located: http://www.blizzard.com/support/wowgm/?id=agm01714 p . These accounts were not provided any warning, suspension, or any instruction that what they had done was wrong. There was no gray area, no possibility of error, no forgivance. All 100,000+ of these accounts were immediately banned, and were classified as no longer available for any use.
When me and my best friend contacted Blizzard we got the standard, ctrl+c ctrl+v (copy + paste FYI) email they send out to every person they really dont care about. Stating that they had found third party software running on our system which violated the EULA/TOS/etc. We proceeded to further inquire as to what was going on. I do not know exactly what my friend recieved, but I recall it being similar, if not identical to my results. Blizzard responded stating that they had "further reviewed" the "evidence" which they had acquired regarding our banning, and maintained the argument that what we had done was wrong. Note that they do not offer us a suspension instead of our banning, or anything of similar nature. They further proceeded to outline that this was not up for further discussion. I must also note, that at no time in any of the emails, whatsoever, did they actually tell us any details as to the evidence they procured, what it was, and how they procured it.
During this whole issue, I discovered that Transgaming (the makers of Cedega, the emulation software we were using to play WoW in linux) had concluded that Blizzard had inappropriately banned a large ammount of accounts at the exact same time of the Warden update. They said that if anyone had been banned in such a circumstance, that they should contact Transgaming ASAP in an attempt to get your account unbanned. We proceeded to contact them, and they asked us standard questions, such as accout name, first name, last name, email address; acceptable information for recovering an account of such. After doing such, everything went quiet for about a week or so. We then recieved an email (each of us) from Blizzard Entertainment themselves, stating that they had "misbanned" us. They proceeded to appologize, and even gave us 2 weeks free in addition to free time equal to the time our accounts were unavailable.
Okay, cool, Blizzard actually tried to bring us back as customers. But lets review this.
-Blizzard banned me and my best friend during a Warden update, while we were using Cedega.
-Blizzard did not offer any warning, suspension, or other punishment less than banning
-Blizzard failed to seriously investigate the circumstances of our banning
-We had to contact Transgaming in ord