Blizzard Tries To Forbid Open Sourcing Glider

ruphus13 notes a new development in Blizzard's case against MDY, which we discussed last week. Blizzard, the maker of World of Warcraft, has now requested another injunction — to prevent the open sourcing of Glider code. Quoting: "Blizzard has asked the court for a relatively unconventional order prohibiting MDY from making the source code for its MMO Glider software available to the public, and prohibiting MDY from helping people develop other World of Warcraft automation software. Blizzard had previously asked the court to shut down MDY's WoW operations in its motion for summary judgment, but the court's summary judgment order did not address Blizzard's request. Blizzard's requests to prohibit open-source release of MDY's software and prohibit MDY's assistance in development of independent WoW bots are new to this motion — and seem likely to raise eyebrows in the open source and digital rights advocacy camps."

Comments

I have a solution....

[Lumpy]

OOPS! we were hacked! our source code was stolen!

OMG!! It's all over pirate bay! sorry!

In other words, legally say "Blizzard.... Go To Hell."

Re:I have a solution....

[Spy der Mann]

This code sucks and people that develop it suck as well. They are people that do not believe rules are for them.

You would make an excellent agent... Mister Anderson.

Re:I have a solution....

[tritonman]

Eventually, they will probably take Microsoft to court and demand that they remove things from the Windows API like ReadProcessMemory, SetWindowsHookEx and even SendKeys.

Re:I have a solution....

[TheLink]

You may only legally copy this post to the contents of your memory or distribute it to others, if you do whatever I command you to (in the future) and also send me 10% of your income every month in cash equivalent.

Oh yeah, and you must also howl at the full moon every month while standing on one leg in a public place.

And if you are someone who writes EULAs (or those stupid Corporate Email Signatures), please move to Sudan and eat sand for the rest of your hopefully short life.

Re:I have a solution....

[Anonymous Coward]

Look, if YOU wanna be on Keanu Reeves side, well, that's your problem. The rest of us are sticking with Elrond.

He may have the goofy eyebrows, but on the other hand, he didn't star in the Lake House.

Enemy of my enemy?

[rehtonAesoohC]

Unfortunately, a lot of people will be stricken with, "The Enemy of my Enemy is... the maker of the game that I'm addicted to."

I feel a strange disturbance in the force... as if thousands of WoW-addicts/programmers cried out in pain, and were silenced.

Re:You cannot outlaw bots

[foobsr]

"People want to avoid time sinks."

Quote from /..

Well done.

CC.

Too late: here's the source

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't see what all the fuss is about ... the source code for Glider is 9 bits:

- # -
- - #
# # #

Re:False positives

[giafly]

I just got banned [from WOW] and i've never run any of these hacks as a matter of fact i was playing on a mac

Be happy, Blizzard just gave you your life back!

OT: Analogies

[thePowerOfGrayskull]

Have you ever noticed that whenever someone starts a post saying that an analogy is bad, they then try to add more convolutions to that same analogy as if that will improve it?

Why, that kind of analogy is just like when someone puts a rocket on their neighbor's car and doesn't tell the neighbor, then fires it up when the neighbor leaves for work in the morning.

Yep, just like it. :D

Re:"illegal" open source software

[Anonymous Coward]

It's really complicated. Whether by design or not, contract law is astoundingly complex and sometimes borderline irrational.

So, mathematically speaking, considering C and D are arbitrary constants, pi is the famous number (~3.141592...), and i is the square root of -1, then:

Contract law = C*pi*i + D

Yeah, that makes things a lot clearer.