Blizzard vs. Glider Battle Resumes Next Week

trawg writes "You paid for it, you have the DVD in your drive and the box on the floor next to your desk, but do you own the game? That's the question the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will rule on next week in the case between Blizzard, publisher of World of Warcraft, and MDY, publisher of the Glider bot. The Glider bot plays World of Warcraft for you, but Blizzard frowns on this, saying it voids the license agreement — you don't own the game, you only have a license to use it, and bots like Glider invalidate the license. The EFF has a good summary of the case as well. The case is due to be resumed on Monday."

Comments

Re:The brief is interesting reading...

[Krneki]

It ain't.

Sure they say so, but who gives a shit about what they want.

If I want my AI to play the game, it will play it. Don't be a racist. This is the same as saying niggers can't play WoW.

Re:I am not going to hold my breath...

[snowgirl]

Blizzard are saying that this technique should be illegal- in the case of Glider, making the whole piece of software illegal even if you wanted to use it on say, 3rd party custom WoW servers. They're saying it's okay for them to use the technique though to scan your other software.

This is what every person playing WoW has agreed to by contract with Blizzard.

They're using a legal answer, to a technical/gameplay problem.

MDY started the lawsuit, Blizzard finished it.