PocketGnome/ShadowBot gets SHUTDOWN by Blizzard, owes $7 million in damages!

[zaeBOOST]

PocketGnome just lost a court case to Blizzard and is now forced to stop its operations and pay $7 million in damages to Blizzard.

"We are very sorry that we can no longer offer our products and we understand that you may be concerned about this result," Ceiling Fan Software writes in a statement on its web site. "After more than 2 year of legal battles with Blizzard Entertainment to both pursue our right to operate and our customer's right to play WoW as they choose, we did not prevail in the suit."

The judgment notes that the bots operators made $289,000 from its botting operation, charging users a $25 start-up fee, then a monthly license of $8.99, plus another $2.99 for something called "Pocket Goblin." They sold about 2,000 bot licenses in all, collecting the money through auto-rebills of credit cards through PayPal.

"If you would like to make donations to help offset some of our outstanding legal fees, you may do so here," Ceiling Fan says in its statement, directing users to a PayPal link.

Honestly, I have no idea how they are going to rack up that kind of cash... $2 million would make more sense, there is no way that they could have cause $7 million in damages!

via Kotaku
via Ceiling Fan Software - Legal

[arenex]

PocketGnome just lost a court case to Blizzard and is now forced to stop its operations and pay $7 million in damages to Blizzard.

"We are very sorry that we can no longer offer our products and we understand that you may be concerned about this result," Ceiling Fan Software writes in a statement on its web site. "After more than 2 year of legal battles with Blizzard Entertainment to both pursue our right to operate and our customer's right to play WoW as they choose, we did not prevail in the suit."

The judgment notes that the bots operators made $289,000 from its botting operation, charging users a $25 start-up fee, then a monthly license of $8.99, plus another $2.99 for something called "Pocket Goblin." They sold about 2,000 bot licenses in all, collecting the money through auto-rebills of credit cards through PayPal.

"If you would like to make donations to help offset some of our outstanding legal fees, you may do so here," Ceiling Fan says in its statement, directing users to a PayPal link.

Honestly, I have no idea how they are going to rack up that kind of cash... $2 million would make more sense, there is no way that they could have cause $7 million in damages!

via Kotaku
via Ceiling Fan Software - Legal

have u been living under a rock the past weeks?

[zaeBOOST]

have u been living under a rock the past weeks?

No, but I know you have

[arenex]

No, but I know you have

photoshopped

[clubblake234]

hahaha nice one kurnik, how do you do the photoshop like that?

[Deathsmind]

Theres no way they will ever make that. Just claim bankruptcy.

[doctorbunnyears]

Yeah, as long as they incorporated everything correctly the lawsuit should be against the LLC, and if they managed their situation correctly they will have already drained the money before the court case. In which they say, "That folder sitting in the desk with our company name on it is the company, and it has no assets. You may have the folder. Thanks for the profits, we took them out before the ruling."