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Court Upholds Blizzard's Anti-Bot DMCA Claim, Denies Copyright Infringement

Posted by Soulskill on from the should-have-farmed-more-rep-with-the-judges dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Ninth Circuit reversed a $6.5 million judgment for Blizzard against MDY Industries, saying that making bots is not copyright infringement. The bad news for MDY? The court found that they did violate DMCA Section 1201(a)(2) (PDF), which prohibits trafficking in products that circumvent technologies designed to control access to copyright-protected works."

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  1. Re:DMCA is useful? by Kinthelt · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Blizzards owns the content to WoW, and the players are licensees (which shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody since they pay a subscription). The content inside WoW can only be accessed via a client which Blizzard controls. The content of WoW is copyright. WoW put safeguards up (via Warden) to prevent unauthorized access to this content. MDY circumvented Warden.

    Open and shut case.

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