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Blizzard Sues Private Server Company, Awarded $88M

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Blizzard? by mustPushCart · · Score: -1, Troll

    I wish they would change it to say 'Activision Sues Private Company'. I don't want my superb memories of the games I played that started with a blue blizzard logo breaking through to be soiled by this bunch of evil goblins in suits. God knows Blizzard did not mind private servers before this (because they sucked).

    1. Re:Blizzard? by mysidia · · Score: 1, Troll

      They minded that because the developers were stupid enough to call the product "bnetd" and refer to Blzzard's trademarked name battle net...

    2. Re:Blizzard? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      You mean like Kerrigan going back to being human? :D

    3. Re:Blizzard? by mqduck · · Score: 0, Troll

      the vast majority of people still playing BroodWar (legitimately as well as otherwise) much prefer iCCup to battlenet, to the extent that if you don't know your iCCup ranking, you really can't call yourself a Starcraft player.

      Uh... why? Did Battle.net break since I stopped playing Starcraft or something?

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  2. Re:Moon Crickets by PHAT64 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Activision rather. A damn shame theres no edit features on this site.

  3. Re:Anonymous Coward by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0, Troll

    Here we have a case of someone infringing Blizzard's work

    Are you sure?

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  4. Re:Hmmm by Devout_IPUite · · Score: 0, Troll

    Poorly. The client for WoW is free, the service is the ONLY thing they sell. But an A for effort. (I don't buy from Activision anymore)