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Court Upholds Blizzard's Anti-Bot DMCA Claim, Denies Copyright Infringement
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."
but it really seems to me that our government is becoming more and more openly aggressive in showing that corporations are in complete control of our system.
There is absolutely nothing here which indicates what you're saying. That's just pro-piracy hyperbole. Like it or not, IP is a significant contributor to much of the world's economy. Protecting jobs and by extension the economy is actually an excellent idea. The benefactors of such efforts include both small and large companies - and even individual artists, musicians, programmers, and inventors.
What you're really saying is the government is more openly aggressive, in the face of efforts to undermine the world's economy, showing that individual artists, musicians, programmers, and inventors are receiving help from the government to protect their sources of income. And at the end of the day, that's one of the primary functions of government. So contrary to the pro-piracy propaganda which is all too often ignorantly spewed here on slashdot, its actually a very, very, very good thing - unless you have a socialist agenda.