World of Warcraft makers Blizzard Entertainment has been awarded a $6 million judgement against MDY Industries, the makers of MMOGlider, a program that can automate the actions of players in the popular online game, enabling them to perform repetitive tasks—and do things like "farm gold"——without the player actually having to go through all the motions. The case has been going on since 2006; MDY Industries sells the MMOGlider program for $25, although there’s no consistent information regarding how many copies have been sold.
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Warcraft Wins First Round Of Bot Battle
If you want to get rich quickly in World of Warcraft, you can be like many others and use MMOglider, a program from MDY Industries that automates killing and looting. But you might not be able to do it for much longer, because an Arizona judge has decreed that MMOglider infringes on World of Warcraft’s copyright.
However, it’s not in the way that Blizzard, WoW’s maker, claimed when they brought the case to court. According to US District Judge David Campbell, using MMOglider breaks the terms players agree to abide by when the use World of Warcraft. But he didn’t find for Blizzard in the claim that the software violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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