Topic: Blizzard wins lawsuit against bot developers

[TRON]

Cruising thru my feed from slashdot i came across this:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/14/2313247&from=rss

So, the fact that bots hammering World of Warcraft being a problem is understandable. It wrecks the in-game economy (which isn't exactly stable without bot intervention), and it affects other players.

The problem is the way Blizzard won the lawsuit, one of their points being "that if a game is loaded into RAM, that can be considered an unauthorized copy of the game and as such a breach of copyright."

Well, shiver me timbers. We do that every day! Does that mean that running a program is now illegal? I, for once, am glad I run Linux and those silly copyrights don't apply to me... Wait, but I have a Wii, DS and PSP... Aww crap, I'm not off the hook.

[Aridale]

In Reply To #1

yeah its gonna get so bad eventually that you wont actually OWN anything you buy all youll be doin is rentin or leasin everything for the full price they used to cost to buy. All with no rights whatsoever to do anythin but play it in a specific very controlled way.

[The Last Belmont]

being "that if a game is loaded into RAM, that can be considered an unauthorized copy of the game and as such a breach of copyright."

copyright is BS anyway and is just a scare tactic. All it's there for is to make the big corporations who distribute the movie/game money, the government could "especially" careless what you do once you throw down cash for the product, as they don't ever do anything when you illegally obtain it. If this is actually enforced I'm gonna be surprised because it would be  gigantic waste of time, the feds have bigger and better things to do.

[Kale]

I really like Blizzard for their games but don't all program go through ram at one point or another? How else do you run it?

[Evil_Tim]

All it's there for is to make the big corporations who distribute the movie/game money

 Has anyone ever pretended copyright isn't about money?