Activison-blizzard run the official World of Warcraft servers – with an iron fist. They don’t take too kindly to others doing the same, as Scapegaming’s Alyson Reeves has found out.
The law has sided with Acti-Blizz and – and this serve as a deterrent should you wish to run your own for-profit WoW server – and awarded them a whole lot of money. how much is a whole lot?
Oh, just about $88 Million.
Reeves was found guilty of charging users to play on an unauthorised World of Warcraft server and had generated over $3 million from players. The other eighty five million is for statutory damages. Ouch.
That I suppose is what you get for profiting off other people’s work, and crossing Bobby Kotick who, even when he’s off trying to destroy the Jedi, should not be crossed. Ever.
Too harsh? Possibly, but how else is Kotick going to buy those platinum, diamond-encrusted hand-towel heaters?
Source : slashdot
Last Updated: August 16, 2010
bboy
August 16, 2010 at 15:44
THE POWER OF THE DARK SIDE!
*BBZZZTTTTT
Nick de Bruyne
August 16, 2010 at 15:53
That’s really rough, but I can’t believe the dude actually managed to score $3 million from the process, I’ll bet he thought he was coining it for a short while there, until Darth Bobby stepped in
Bobby Kotick weighs in
August 16, 2010 at 18:07
I’m always amazed at how the penalties for copyright violations borders on the insane, whereas in comparison it’s exponentially cheaper to be on trail for murder.
It’s a crazy world.
Bobby Kotick weighs in
August 16, 2010 at 18:11
There is no way in hell that they’ll ever recover $88 million from Reeves, however that’s probably not the point, since it’s supposed to act as a deterrent.