Judge rules WoW bot violates DMCA
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 8:42 pm
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009 ... ubling.ars
Hopefully we'll see a drop in the amount of gold being bought, and of AH flooding.
Also the price of fish will rise dramatically (from extremely low to really low, I'll bet).
There's a better discussion as it applies to gamers at Slashdot. The Ars Technica page is aimed more at programmers, who will also be affected by the ruling (circumvention and reverse-engineering are large parts of software engineering for some programs).The website wrote:Glider, a popular WoW bot, took another hit on Wednesday as a federal judge ruled that the product went beyond copyright infringement to being a circumvention device under the DMCA.
Hopefully we'll see a drop in the amount of gold being bought, and of AH flooding.
Also the price of fish will rise dramatically (from extremely low to really low, I'll bet).