Blizzard Wins Legal Battle Against WoW Bot Company

New submitter gamersunited writes with news of Blizzard Entertainment's defeat of another company that created bot software to automate World of Warcraft characters. Ceiling Fan Software faces a judgment of $7 million, and must disable any active licenses for the software. They're also forbidden from transferring or open-sourcing the bot software, and from facilitating its continued use in any way. The court order (PDF) follows more than two years of legal wrangling. Blizzard won a similar judgment a few years ago against another bot company called MDY Industries, which created the popular Glider bot.

Grindfest

[ArcadeMan]

If you think World of Warcraft is a grindfest you obviously never played Final Fantasy XI.

Re: Bottable == boring IMO

[Anonymous Coward]

So... they're playing WoW?

Re: forbidden from transferring or open-sourcing?

[drkim]

...If someone showed up at a bowling alley, entered in a tournament, and just ran down the lane and kicked over the pins...

I love your analogy, may I improve it?

...If someone showed up at a bowling alley, entered in a tournament, and had their robotic Roomba run down the lane and knock over all the pins...