No bot for you! – Blizzard sues WoW exploit-maker
Blizzard is taking the coder behind the MMO Glider software to court, saying his creation a harmful bot that infringes on their copyright.
BBC reported Michael Donnelly, MMO Glider’s maker, was caught unawares by the legal action – served by a lawyer who came to his house with a private investigator in tow.
Both Donnelly and Blizzard have submitted their legal summaries to an Arizona court.
Here’s Blizzard’s say on the matter: “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.”
They also argued that the tool infringed the End User License Agreement that players must follow, and infringes copyright by copying the game into RAM to avoid detection by anti-cheat software.
Donnelly, who says that he’s sold more than 100,000 copies of MMO Glider, included this in his legal papers: “When they (the lawyer and PI) 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…Blizzard’s audacious threats offended Donnelly”.
He insists that MMO Glider does not infringe on copyright because no physical “copy” of the Warcraft game client software is made.
Both parties are now waiting for the summary judgement to be made.
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