MDY to pay Blizzard $6 Million in Damages

[Beev]

Originally posted by: Kur

Originally posted by: Beev
Anyone in here claiming this isn't a good thing obviously doesn't even know what Glider is and is just assuming Blizzard is going all RIAA.

Read the documents before making such idiot remarks, you must not be able to read.

"holds that loading of protected software into a computer?s RAM is ?technically? copying for purposes of the Copyright Act"

Under Ninth Circuit law, the loading of WoW into RAM is copying, and Blizzard may lawfully restrict the right to that copying by license.

If I'm reading it right, Because you accept their EULA blizzard technically can restrict what's loaded, copied, moved, erased from you ram for the sake of "Anti-cheat prevention".

You're assuming they are abusing this. They aren't using it for anything more than anti-cheating. There was nothing about my remark that wasn't accurate.

 

[KeypoX]

Wow sucks, blizzard hasnt made a decent game in a long long time. SC2 will be a disappointment.

 

[Kur]

Originally posted by: Beev

Originally posted by: Kur

Originally posted by: Beev
Anyone in here claiming this isn't a good thing obviously doesn't even know what Glider is and is just assuming Blizzard is going all RIAA.

Read the documents before making such idiot remarks, you must not be able to read.

"holds that loading of protected software into a computer?s RAM is ?technically? copying for purposes of the Copyright Act"

Under Ninth Circuit law, the loading of WoW into RAM is copying, and Blizzard may lawfully restrict the right to that copying by license.

If I'm reading it right, Because you accept their EULA blizzard technically can restrict what's loaded, copied, moved, erased from you ram for the sake of "Anti-cheat prevention".

You're assuming they are abusing this. They aren't using it for anything more than anti-cheating. There was nothing about my remark that wasn't accurate.

Ive used glider before, it's not as easy as everyone makes it sounds. Blizzard isn't going all RIAA, it went to the source of the crack, it didn't sue all the users... yet.

 

[skace]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
Huh?

How does botting make Blizz earn less money? Obviously people who bot still wants to continue playing WoW and pay the monthly fee regardless of how much they actually play or afking in AV cave.

Unless Blizz releases their own botting plugin.

And did Blizz ever address the root of the problem? When you get into BGs with an uneven playing field heavily stacked against your favor again and again no wonder people will want to bot. L2P my ass.

Let's say it takes you 1 year to get to 70 and see enough content to get bored with WOW. Now, with a bot, let's say it takes you 1 month to get to 70 and see enough content to get bored with WOW. Blizzard didn't see any money from the sale of the bot, however they would be seeing a net loss in profit due to the fact that you basically ruined the game for yourself.

But that isn't the best reason to go after these people. The main one is because this shit is what eventually ruins a game ala Diablo 2. It's the downward spiral of cheating that eventually trivializes everything that was the least bit difficult in the game.