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• • Judge: Glider Violates Blizzard Copyright.

  • Originally posted by Vrika
    

    I think the laws are ridiculous when a player is allowed to play a game he owns, but not allowed to use a software wich copies the game to RAM to run the game. Soon we'll be seeing games with EULAs wich make running them with emulator illegal. Consumers should have more rights about how to run their own games.

    Blizzard is doing really good job against botters and I appreciate what they are doing, but the lawmakers should make better laws. Something that would make including any functionality to hide the program to a program wich can be used to bot illegal would be a good law. So that Blizzard, and other companies, could identify those botting programs and ban the users without problems should they wish to do so.

    Unfortunately - this is a misconception the vast majority of gamers have - invariably when you 'buy' a game you're not actually buying the game. You're just buying a licence to use that game. The only thing you actually own in anyway is the box it came in, the manual it came with and the physical media it came on (and there are a number of arguments that state you don't even own those).

    Blizzard owns the WOW client you've installed on your PC you have a license that allows you to install and use Blizzards property (the WOW client) on your PC. Blizzard can revoke that license at any time effectively meaning you don't even own the license; you just rent it. Essentially you have a rental agreement with Blizzard (or with any other software developer you've 'bought' software from and that includes the operating system you're using) to use their software. If you stuck a music studio in the middle of the garden of a house you were renting without the house owners permission he'd no doubt be a bit peeved and demand you leave the property immediately and take the studio with you.

    It's probably not a particularly good analagy but Glider - and any other similar piece of code - is the software equivalent of the music studio in the back garden. Some other owners may not care about it or may even encourage it (always beware though, its THEIR garden not yours) but Blizzard is a bit pissed off at the mess it's made of the roses and wants Michael Donnelly evicted.

  • Posted: 7/17/08 9:55 AM
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