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."

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Re:Good News for Blizzard, bad news for copyright

[The_Quinn]

I don't consider myself screwed over, so please don't speak for me

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.