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Blizzard Wins Major Lawsuit Against Bot Developers
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."
Better go through and rewrite my OS so I can make sure that nothing goes into RAM...
Guess where I'll be for the next 10 years?
My wife is going to kill me...
Not WoW. WoW, like Diablo II and Starcraft before it, runs from your soul itself, slowly filling your life until there is nothing but the game.
New business plan:
1. Write a game that loads itself into RAM.
2. Give it away for free.
3. Sue everybody who plays it for copyright infringement.
4. Profit!
Performance of WoW is gonna suck now that everyone has to disable their cache before starting the game.
I have known many people to play WoW, I mean, it's insane.
The judge probably plays WoW.
The plaintiff's lawyers probably play WoW.
The defendant's lawyers probably play WoW.
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
Meh. No problem. Clearly my feeble attempts to play WoW are covered as parody.
You sound... like an unbeliever. Like one of the washed masses. Impure infidel! We will get to you soon enough.
...Tom Cruise? Is that you?
You're screwed even with vinyl records. An unauthorized copy is stored in your brain, from which it may be illegally distributed by such devious pirating methods as humming and whistling!
I have some mixed filling about that.
Congratulations, you are now officially a sandwich!
Forget world peace, bring on -1 pointless
Derivative works; fair use. However, the copy that's being stored in the amplifier for a split-second between the needle and the speaker absolutely needs a license, as does each wall in the room unless they're certified to be 100% reflective to audio waves.
The license for your pants' copy of the song is, of course, easily avoided. Though it does drastically change the nature of public performance.
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
No, I'm New Here
Wait a second!??????????1!!
Did you read TFA and understand what was going on?!!!!
SHAME ON YOU!
Don't you know this is slashdot?
I'm entirely uncomfortable with the idea that Diablo III is the new face of Dianetics.
Derivative works; fair use. However, the copy that's being stored in the amplifier for a split-second between the needle and the speaker absolutely needs a license, as does each wall in the room unless they're certified to be 100% reflective to audio waves.
The license for your pants' copy of the song is, of course, easily avoided. Though it does drastically change the nature of public performance.
Most people suck at whistling and humming. I think they clearly qualify as parody.
VLC FOR MAC IS DYING! IF YOU DEVELOP, PLEASE SAVE IT!!
You know as well as I do that the RIAA is searching for God if only to send him a bill.
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
Yes, but on the other hand, my completely non-electrical car with its flintlock sparkplugs isn't so much fun either ;).
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
No. The EULAs state that upon installation of the software your soul becomes property of Blizzard.
exactly now it is possible to site this case and say anyone who runs your program by loading it into ram is violating copyright, and thus should pay you extra.
If I follow the judge's logic, then anybody looking at me on the street has created an unauthorized copy of me on their retina. They even have the gall to create additional unauthorized copies in other brain areas.
Lawsuits galore!
Unfucking believable.
Seriously.
I can't believe you just said that.
There's no way in hell that that could possibly be even remotely true.
No one on slashdot lost only four years to Diablo.
Question everything
well, you are playing their game. it would just be plain stupid if blizzard sued their own customers.
I cant even imagine any buiness.........
wait a second....
In-game cheating should be prevented by leveraging real-world laws? Not only does that not have anything to do with the issue at hand, it's fucking stupid.
btw, you just lost the game.
-- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All