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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."
First they addict you through conditioning. Then your lose sleep playing nonstop for days. Soon you're out of a job, your wife has left you, and the only people who will still talk to you are your guild mates, a bunch of 13-year-olds.
And now this bullshit court decision.
This is all proof that Blizzard is actually the Horde. They are evil.
So uninstall the game, cancel your account, and step outside.
By the ruling handed down inferring that coping a game into RAM is an illegal copy, does this imply that WOW uses only Peripherals, and CPU only? The graphics alone are copied to the RAM on the Video Card. There is a decrease in available RAM when the game is "Loaded". There has got to be to the ruling than this "Copying the game into RAM". What is the outcome of we WOW users when we start using Solid State Disk Drives?
I also love Blizzard games, but I don't try and use 3rd party software during the game - so I fall squarely into compliance with their EULA.
Mine is Good
Opera doesn't violate the license agreement by allowing you to run simultaneous copies of the program.
Try to understand the case at hand. Its not that hard. GLIDE's ONLY purpose is to allow you to run multiple bots by skipping the licence validation code. You are only allowed ONE player per license.
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No they can't. They can legislate, brainwash, and moralize all they like, but it won't stop anything. Slow, but not stop.
We could solve these problems instantly if there was any will to do so. The supreme law is the will of the people. If people wouldn't play along with these restrictions, corporations would have to drop them, Or go out of business. Either way, court decisions on the issue wouldn't mean a thing. On several occasions they have gone too far and been forced to back off not by the courts but by popular backlash.
Of course, it won't happen anytime soon. Most people don't know or care about restrictions, and some who are aware are sympathetic. They think companies are within their rights to impose restrictions. Will be many years before today's norms look quaint and ridiculously restrictive to the majority, but I think that will eventually come to pass.
Intellectual Property is a monopolistic, selfish, and defective concept. It is "tyranny over the mind of man"