Sued Freelancer Allegedly Turns Over Contractee Source Code In Settlement

FriendlySolipsist writes: Blizzard Entertainment has been fighting World of Warcraft bots for years. TorrentFreak reports that Bossland, a German company that operates "buddy" bots, alleges Blizzard sued one of its freelancers and forced a settlement. As part of that settlement, the freelancer allegedly turned over Bossland's source code to Blizzard. In Bossland's view, their code was "stolen" by Blizzard because it was not the freelancer's to disclose. This is a dangerous precedent for freelance developers in the face of legal threats: damned if you do, damned if you don't.

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Re:Illegal

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Is it illegal?

I thought it sounded like a textbook case of tortious interference (i.e. inducing the contractor to breach his contract), which is a civil matter. I expect the contractor could sue blizzard for that if he's sued by his client.