World of Warcraft: Blizzard Wins $6M in Glider Case

wilcoxon

And some more DMCA abuses I went and looked up after writing the last post. I would have just edited them in but, for some reason, edit is screwing up most of the lists in the post...

• Chilling Effects is an entire site jointly run by EFF, Berkman Center, and several universities about DMCA abuses (tons of takedowns and plenty of others as well).
• A short article with links (and the usual comments) on SlashDot about takedown notice abuses.
• A summary article on ArsTechnica of various abuses (mostly takedown notice again).
• And a site run by a professor at CMU:
  • DeCSS case against 2600 over distribution of code.
  • Quashing of presentation of research into defeating SDMI (when the RIAA invited teams to try to break it).
  • Adobe vs Elcomsoft over Elcomsoft developing software that competes with Adobe Ebook Reader (since the Ebook format is "encrypted").
  • Very little on a case over cracking a block list.
  • IBILL (porn credit card processor) shuts down hacker site for posting unflattering commentary on IBILL's lack of security.
  • Sony quashes essay on memory encoding scheme used in Aibo.
  • US Customs blocks importation of Sega Dreamcast data cable.
  • Nintendo C&Ds Gameboy Advance data down/up-load software (used for developing Gameboy Advance programs).
  • Blizzard shut down BNETD (ground up recreation of Battle-Net which was free so no profit concerns).

Hopefully, that's enough blatant abuses of the DMCA to convince you it is a terrible piece of legistlation.

jmd10222

I hate gold farming/ bot users.  I hope they all get shut down.