Blizzard Wins Major Lawsuit Against Bot Developers

Posted by kdawson on Monday July 14, 2008 @11:59AM from the gliding-off-into-the-sunset dept.

Captain Kirk writes "World of Warcraft owners Blizzard have won their case against the programmer who wrote Glider, Michael Donnelly. (We discussed the case here when it was filed.) Blizzard won on two arguments: first, that if a game is loaded into RAM, that can be considered an unauthorized copy of the game and as such a breach of copyright; second, that selling Glider was interfering with Blizzard's contractual relationship with its customers. The net effect? If you buy a game, you transfer rights to the game developer that they can sue you for."

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Re:Wow... by icebike · 2008-07-14 13:31 · Score: 0, Flamebait

READ your license and find out.
Most likely you can run ONE copy of the game on ONE computer at once.
Two licenses would then require an additional computer (or a virtual machine).
Who modded this "insightful"?

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