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:You cannot outlaw bots

[foobsr]

"People want to avoid time sinks."

Quote from /..

Well done.

CC.