Blizzard Sues Private Server Company, Awarded $88M

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday August 14, 2010 @05:38PM from the not-such-a-good-business-model dept.

Cali Thalen writes "A private server company, Scapegaming (aka Alyson Reeves), was ordered to pay Blizzard Entertainment over $88 million in damages after losing a lawsuit that was concluded last week. Scapegaming was operating unauthorized World of Warcraft servers and using a micropayment system to collect money from the servers' user base, which according to the lawsuit amounted to just over $3 million. $85 million of that settlement was for statutory damages, and surprisingly only $63,000 in attorney's fees."

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Re:Anonymous Coward by trsteinmetz · 2010-08-15 05:23 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Doesn't anyone remember bnetd, the battle.net emulator that Blizzard C&Ded and sued into oblivion? It's obvious that Blizzard doesn't give a damn about interoperability or protocol compatibility. Just another greedy company making some spare change on the legal side. Nothing to see here, move along.