Why I bot
the reason I bought this bot is because of the blizzard assholes and honorbuddy's need to get the money to fight the lawsuite. frankly I got banned for econ exploit (perma-bann) and I did not run a bot at all, i was just good at working the AH. they did not believe me so i lost my main account. So I got another, and I bought pirox until they died. Now I have this. If i get banned I will give up wow but for now I bot the crap out of the game (within reason). there are two reasons I feel I need to support the botters.
First this is a after all a game. a game company needs to adjust its economy not its players. Other game companies do have eula agreements that say dont screw around in the game, but they don't ban the player, they will suspend you for a few hours or days, but they know what side the bread is buttered on. Eve online for example automated some of thier game (it plays itself for training) they also let you sell a pilot license online and get like a billion credits. That is eve sells perks and regulates it. here is a kick for you, Susanexpress is a gold seller, I have seen them and their web site up since 2006 and they are still in business, they even spam in chat. turns out they are in fact a part of sony-korea which owns or is part of activision. So here is blizzerd banning people for using services thier parent company in effect provides. Ok so thats one side.
the other side is this, the lawsuits so far have not been about copyright strictly, the last ruling created a cool new case law that floored me. Blizzard says *(and the court agreed) that the products of you playing the game, that is the data caused by your character (in copyright terms the non-literal elements) are in fact copyrighted works of blizzard. Bots tamper with that they say, and so interfere with blizards copyright. it gets better, because the agreement you wont do that is in fact part of the EULA of the game (which is a contract) once they prove infringement they prove basically contract violation. now contract violation carries a lot higher financial penalties, so you are in fact getting to leverage contract level damages for copyright infringement. Ah, but it gets better. You can accidentally infringe on copyright and not be personally liable, but this is not the case in contract law, in which you are either guilty or not, and if guilty personally and in some cases criminally liable.
but so what its a game, well, it gets better. if you write a piece of software (any software) that reads the file of another program and does something you have infringed upon that software. you are liable, even if you did not know that it was against its EULA. taken to an extream you could argue that because I use microsoft word to write a novel, the novel is a non-literal product of word (that is a product of you interacting with word) and therefore as the non-literal product is the copyright of the owner of word, the novel belongs to microsoft.
so this is a VERY big deal to software developers like me. I didnt bot, would never have thought about it, until I got banned, and blizzard could never give me any reason for it. next day I supported the botters, and now I will buy bots even if I no longer play.
frankly its all ridiculous, in another industry what we do might harm the company, but we pay to play this way, blizzard has made its money. and as far as I know they have NEVER been able to show tangible evidence that the game play was impaired in any way.
my 2 cents, sorry for the length