Blizzard are taking legal action against the creator of a program that they claim infringes the company’s copyright.
Michael Donnelly, the programmer in question, created MMO Glider, a program which can automatically control some of a WoW character’s key actions, including combat.
Donnelly has sold over 100,000 copies of the bot, and Blizzard are demanding that he stop selling Glider and return all profits that he made from the sales. Donnelly disputes the claim, saying his program doesn’t infringe Blizzard’s copyright.
In Blizzard’s legal submission to the court last week, the firm said: “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.”
Read the full story on the BBC news site.
Thanks to Snodge for the tip.
I don’t like botters. That is a lie, I hate the fact that they are cheating, not just "don’t like".
The thing is, how much of personal integrity is ok to loose for people cheating in a virtual world? The program doesn’t *sound* illegal in the light I have seen it in thus far. I’ll be following this carefully..