Blizzard Bot Ruling Sets A Dangerous Precedent On Copyright

Courtesy Techdirt  Wed, 07/16/2008 - 14:00

Earlier this year, we wrote a couple times about how World of Warcraft maker Blizzard was suing a bot maker.

In that case, Blizzard was claiming that the bot maker (which let users automate certain tasks to quickly rise up in experience level) was violating its copyrights first by getting around the copy protection on its own spybot (which tries to prevent such automation) and then by not obeying the terms of the license agreement.

As we pointed out...


 

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