You are misguided in the thinking that you own your own personal copy of the game. If you read through the End User License Agreement and the Terms of Use that you have agreed to, you will see that you have acknowledged that the software, your account and anything associate within are the property of Blizzard. Buying a copy of the game, or most software for that matter, merely gives you a license, or the right to use, that particular piece of software. In this case, you are licensed to use the software and you have the right to "rent" account space on their servers.
This case comes down to what the EULA allows and disallows and what aspects of which are concrete enough to past legal muster. Lets not for get that Blizzard did not sue MDY, yet this is an answer and counter suit to the suit MDY brought against them. Blizzard's case is fairly weak, (I believe that their main argument is that Glider's code contains in game scripting commands which are their property) they had to do something to show their community that they are trying to fight against botting as doing nothing would have been a huge black eye. I do condone botting, but I don't see that MDY did anything legally wrong here. I don't necessarily agree that Blizzard should be allowed to scan a persons RAM et al while they are playing, bu this is another matter that is permitted by their EULA and that every user has agreed to.
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You are misguided in the thinking that you own your own personal copy of the game. If you read through the End User License Agreement and the Terms of Use that you have agreed to, you will see that you have acknowledged that the software, your account and anything associate within are the property of Blizzard. Buying a copy of the game, or most software for that matter, merely gives you a license, or the right to use, that particular piece of software. In this case, you are licensed to use the software and you have the right to "rent" account space on their servers. This case comes down to what the EULA allows and disallows and what aspects of which are concrete enough to past legal muster. Lets not for get that Blizzard did not sue MDY, yet this is an answer and counter suit to the suit MDY brought against them. Blizzard's case is fairly weak, (I believe that their main argument is that Glider's code contains in game scripting commands which are their property) they had to do something to show their community that they are trying to fight against botting as doing nothing would have been a huge black eye. I do condone botting, but I don't see that MDY did anything legally wrong here. I don't necessarily agree that Blizzard should be allowed to scan a persons RAM et al while they are playing, bu this is another matter that is permitted by their EULA and that every user has agreed to.