[legal] November 2014 update on legal

[klb2948]

Just curious how many HB users are there...roughly? I think Blizzard could be digging their own grave as far as WoW goes if they keep screwing around with HB. HB is the only reason I even have a slight interest in the game anymore and I can name about 90% of my RL friends who play. IMO blizz should sit back, relax and take in botters $$ when they have to purchase a new account after a ban.

 

[Karrel]

Wie siehts denn mit dem gesundheitlichen Aspekt aus wieviele Leute sind an solche Spiele gestorben da sie nicht getrunken oder etwas gegessen haben und genug geschlafen haben um sich zu erholen da kommt doch Hb zu gute um mal ne Pause zu machen oder zu relaxen wie manch Gaskranke die es tagelang manuell machen um sich Erfolg zu holen bzw. ihr Ziel zu erreichen. (Nur so nen Gedanke )

 

[Derogatory]

All the best to you Bossland & Team!

Seriously, you shouldn't have any "personal" liability... you do reserve the right to reverse engineer Blizzards application and do as you please on you own computer systems. What you're not allowed to do is re-distribute their product, or explicit code, for compensation. Your own hard work is with HB to learn about how an application operates and educate yourself, so all you did is a create a little income to help you with your education by writing an application to help others in a game. So, that little side project became popular but now you have all these uneducated buffoons whinning about how some people have a greater advantage over them in a game, so what! So, in order for Blizzard Entertainment to make these whiners happy and with having deep pockets... they go out and blame individuals who just have a desire to learn, but also these individuals who have a desire to learn brought HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of dollars into Blizzard Entertainments pockets and helped make them as successful as they are today. Without you bot developers Blizzard Entertainment would likely be unheard of today, as well many other software and/or game developers and titles being offered. It is not illegal to bot or use advanced tools to enhance your personal enjoyment of a game. You're not causing personal economical hardships to anyone; Blizzard Entertainment is, obviously, causing the drama over their childish disillusion. There is nothing wrong / illegal about what you're doing, simple as that.

Yale Law Journal - The Law and Economics of Reverse Engineering
Reverse Engineering
Digital Law Online: Reverse Engineering


It's absurdly funny how Blizzard has this delusional belief that they retain exclusive "intellectual rights" to the memory on a customers computers, which they do not. Also, the market within World of Warcraft is generated by player actions, not just by players alone, but the "currencies" generated by players are virtually limitless, unregulated, and generated by a server. In real life... currency has a defined limit, governed and regulated by our governments. In World of Warcraft / Blizzard... the game currency will always be there and will never have an effect on real economical issues. I was going somewhere with that, but lost track.




Too true! The capitalistic whores in America seriously need a gut punch. Also many Justices here are Republicans (very unwise individuals) and believe that written law is perfect law, and people or corporations with money are always right. There is no such thing as Justice in America.

Similarly lets talk, different thread, about Blizzards out-right theft of an addon called oQueue.

This.

 

[akassaw]

This.

That ^

 

[Drizzt1990]

You guys realize that us law is not important for german courts?