The World of Warcraft Glider software allows players to automate many of the repetitive steps in the WoW world and allowing them to go afk while the software controls their character, in essence playing the game for them.
Blizzard filed a suit against MDY which it won in July of this year. Blizzard however saw its appeal for double or triple the cash settlement rejected but the case will resume in January 2009 where the remaining issues in the legal conflict look likely to be settled.
The remaining issues are whether mDY broke the US Digital Millenium Copyright Act and whether the creator of the software, MDY founder Michael Donnelly, will have to pay the damages out of his own pocket.
According to the BBC the Glider program cost $25 and it's believed the company sold around 100,000 copies.
BBC | Joystiq
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Blizzard set to make $6 million from bot maker
Blizzard Entertainment are on their way to receiving $6 million after they took legal action against MDY Industries, the maker of a World of Warcraft bot.
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It's more than enough to host ESWC 10x. Maybe 20x.
thats only 2.500.000$ and they had to pay 6.000.000$ ... bad thing
also if you ignore copy rights you steal others ideas which is worth even more
its still not fair to the other players.
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This.
But GJ blizzard :)
sigh this post really made my point
Nevertheless they are the reason a _lot_ of people are banned or received temp bans at least, they should be punished for partially destroying pvp for quite some time. We all remember the AVs with 25-30 ppl afk during the night hours with absolutely NO WAY of doing something about it (e.g. reporting, ..) Ok sure there are a lot of these programs but this one was one of the more popular ones.
and the botting'll _never_ stop anyway. i mean they track down programs running in the background acting like "bots". When a program like wow is ran on a guest acc on the comp, the guest acc doesnt have the rights to "scan" the other processes e.g. bots. It wont change.