Blizzard is sueing wowglider

[ministorm]

I got this off of markeedragon.com THIS IS NOT MY MATERIAL

Blizzard officially files against WoW Glider

Blizzard and Vivendi ( www.blizzard.com ) today filed against MDY Industries ( www.wowglider.com ) and Michael Donnelly in the state of Arizona USA. Blizzard is seeking injunctive relief and money damages against MDY. What that means is they want him to stop the production of WoW Glider and they want him to pay them damages. Blizzard believes that Glider infringes on their intellectual property. They believe Glider allows players to cheat, giving them an unfair advantage and that they believe Glider encourages Blizzard customers to breach their contracts for playing the game. Last they claim that Glider is designed to circumvent copyright protections.

Now let me give a little opinion. First off I am not an expert in the law. Blizzard wants money from Glider because they don't like it. ok. I can understand that. They want Michael / MDY to stop selling glider. I can understand this also.

Blizzard believes that Glider allows players to cheat. Having used Glider myself I would have to say that it is not really a cheat program. It does not allow you to dupe items or create things out of thin air. It does not do anything a real player can do with one exception. It does allow the character to be played 24x7. Humans can't do that. Groups of people could do this though. There are many farm companies that offer powerleveling services that will run your character 24x7. There is not much difference between the two of these. Both of them level up your character as fast as possible. They both can farm for you as well.

They claim that Glider encourages WoW players to break their contract with Blizzard. I don't know if that's really an issue. It's customer choice. It just like my brand new car that I want to add a wing to the back. I can buy the wing many different places. I want to do it because I think it will look cool. It's certainly not illegal to add it to my car. But it may in fact void the warranty of the car in respect to the trunk where it is mounted. It's my choice to do this. I am willing to accept the risk of voiding my warranty. I should be able to do this if I want to. Should the auto maker sue the wing manufacturer? I guess they can. But I still want to install it and so I do. There is nothing that the auto maker can do about this.

Lets change the example a little bit. Lets say that I do not own the car. I am leasing it. I install the wing. The leasing company gets all pissed off about this. They take the car away from me and they bill me for repairs to the trunk. I would say they have the right to do that. Now lets talk about playing WoW. If I want to play WoW and add Glider (My wing) to the game. Blizzard has every right to close my account. They in fact have closed my account befor...
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EDIT: If this has already been posted I'm sorry.

[kelat]

oh wow. kinda saw it coming, or something of the sort...and i agree with the analogy of the author, he brings up a good point. but what can you do =/

[Battlemidge]

yeah. they did like.. a few months ago?

[Enfeebleness]

Yeah, is this a new lawsuit, or was it copied and pasted from a long time ago? o_O

[Dajoker]

this is preety old

[ministorm]

well the post on markeedragon was posted on 2/16/07. idk

[Flying Piggy]

That post is still up on the WoWglider forums , so im guessing its a simple copy and paste from the old case . It doesnt say anything about a second case on the forums .

[ministorm]

I never said it was a second case. This is just more info about the case.

[bassman]

I must also agree with the creator of the thread. I haven't used glider before but its definitly not a cheating program. Just runs around in a circle killing things for you I find no harm in it.

Is it hurting WoW economy no, why? B/c you could spend the whole day runing in the same circle and farming the same thing and get the same results.

Does it give an advantage over other players? It could yea, I mean the few hours of the night that its running you gain exp, but all WoW players do have the ability to buy this prgram whenever they want so it's not our fault it's theres.

And what about interface mods? Don't they also give small little adavantages over people that don't have any? I certainly think so. Do you?

[Enfeebleness]

And what about interface mods? Don't they also give small little adavantages over people that don't have any? I certainly think so. Do you?

Yes, but that's completely different.

Does it give an advantage? No doubt.

But is the glider completely free to the average person? No.
If it was, much more people would use them.

However addons, are they free? Yes.
They are, and many people use them. If you don't use them, it's completely your fault, they are free and a simple google search away.

Not to mention addons aren't magicly playing the game for you. They assist, they don't do.

[jimmy2222]

blizzard just doesnt want other people making money off of WoW or anything related to WoW that they do not endorse.

[Matt]

I spoke with Mercury recently through e-mail and this case is currently pending. So yes this is new news.

[idusy-org]

I see bots as being just as bad as any other hack. I can't stand seeing people use speed hacks in BGs. As much as I can't stand seeing people bot where I spend hard work killing things myself. Your cheating the game to get an advantage most players do not have. I don't mind seeing someone use a wall climbing hacking in the middle of stormwind. I don't see that as harmful in anyway. But when someone is gliding, it's much-

I'll continue this statment later >.>

[Thursdae]

Meh old, and this is all crap... All i know is im still not botting for awhile