Blizzard Wins Legal Battle Against WoW Bot Company

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New submitter gamersunited writes with news of Blizzard Entertainment's defeat of another company that created bot software (http://legal.ceilingfansoftware.com/) to automate World of Warcraft characters. Ceiling Fan Software faces a judgment of $7 million, and must disable any active licenses for the software. They're also forbidden from transferring or open-sourcing the bot software, and from facilitating its continued use in any way. The court order (http://legal.ceilingfansoftware.com/docs/143%20Preliminary%20Order%20Granting%20Blizzards%2 0MSJ.pdf) (PDF) follows more than two years of legal wrangling. Blizzard won a similar judgmenta few years ago (http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/12/24/150206/court-upholds-blizzards-anti-bot-dmca-claim-denies-copyright-infringement) against another bot company called MDY Industries, which created the popular Glider bot.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/10/16/2128251/blizzard-wins-legal-battle-against-wow-bot-company