Spooncraft

I’ve been following this story for a while now and it seems that things are starting to get really gritty. Let me reiterate my stance, I hate botters, I hate cheaters, I hate people that trivialize the game because they are too damn lazy or lack the ability to wipe their own butts and still come out on top. Leeches. Time for the boys in Blue to fire up the anti-glider missiles. Check out this article.

Renowned game developer Blizzard has filed suit against a man named Michael Donnelly, the creator of a software program that allows users to automate play of the company’s popular title, World of WarCraft. Blizzard is arguing that Donnelly’s tool, entitled “MMO Glider,” infringes on the End User License Agreement (EULA) of WoW. Donnelly contends that because the game client is not copied, it does not infringe on Blizzard’s copyright. Blizzard has countered by saying that the tool actually copies the game into RAM in order to circumvent WoW’s anti-cheat protection.

“Blizzard’s designs expectations are frustrated, and resources are allocated unevenly, when bots are introduced into the WoW universe, because bots spend far more time in-game than an ordinary player would and consume resources the entire time,” Blizzard’s statement reads.

“Blizzard permits its licensees to load the WoW game client software into RAM to play WoW. As such, Blizzard’s licensees cannot violate Blizzard’s exclusive rights under the Copyright Act to make copies simply by loading a copy of the program into RAM to play WoW,” Donnelly’s statement contests.

Donnelly reportedly decided to fight in the courts after what he describes as “audacious threats” from Blizzard. He says he was made aware of the potential legal repercussions of his Glider application after a private investigator and lawyer from Blizzard’s parent company Vivendi Universal showed up at his home. “When they arrived, they presented Donnelly with a copy of a complaint that they indicated would be filed the next day in the US District Court for the Central District of California if Donnelly did not immediately agree to stop selling Glider and return all profits that he made from Glider sales,” he wrote in his statement. Click here to continue reading the entire article.