Court rules that a major wow bot is not an infringement on wow's copyrights, it simply breaches the EULA contract, which is significantly less severe. Also rules that it breaks the DMCA by circumventing The Warden, wow's bot detector software. So, if wow didn't have a bot detector, it would have been fine? In a similar case, the court ruled that consumers do not own their software but are simply licensing it from the publisher.
[quote=Matt]http://www.gamerlaw.co.uk/2010/12/thoughts-on-wow-glider-appeal.html
Court rules that a major wow bot is not an infringement on wow's copyrights, it simply breaches the EULA contract, which is significantly less severe. Also rules that it breaks the DMCA by circumventing The Warden, wow's bot detector software. So, if wow didn't have a bot detector, it would have been fine? In a similar case, the court ruled that consumers do not own their software but are simply licensing it from the publisher.[/quote]
Court rules that a major wow bot is not an infringement on wow's copyrights, it simply breaches the EULA contract, which is significantly less severe. Also rules that it breaks the DMCA by circumventing The Warden, wow's bot detector software. So, if wow didn't have a bot detector, it would have been fine? In a similar case, the court ruled that consumers do not own their software but are simply licensing it from the publisher.