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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:Perhaps it's only me.... by mrnobo1024 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Like it or not, IP is a significant contributor to much of the world's economy.

    It may be a huge contributor to the world economy, but it's a huge drain on the domestic economy, if you can't stop other countries from becoming free riders on it. China has no reason to pay for American IP when they can just take it and not pay. We can't do the same to them, because they make actual physical products. If things continue as they are, the unidirectional money flow is going to destroy the US.