Ponca City, We Love You writes “Blizzard, the makers of World of Warcraft, are suing Michael Donnelly, the creator of the MMO Glider program, which performs key tasks in the game automatically. Blizzard states the software bot infringes the company’s copyright and potentially damages the game. ‘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,’ Blizzard wrote in its legal submission to the court. More than 100,000 duplicates of the tool have been sold while more than 10 million people around the world play Warcraft. Donnelly states his tool does not infringe Blizzard’s copyright because no ‘copy’ of the Warcraft game client software is ever made. The two parties are now awaiting a summary judgment in the case.”
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