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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."
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!
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.
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!
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?
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?
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....