Blizzard Reportedly Suing Bot Maker Bossland

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Blizzard Reportedly Suing Bot Maker Bossland

According to TorrentFreak.com, Blizzard has filed a lawsuit in California against Bossland, the creator of an Overwatch cheat tool called Watchover Tyrant that allows users to see opponents' stats and locations. The lawsuit cites copyright infringement and unfair competition.

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Arskaaa

+1

Sovrath

good

Horusra

My advise to Blizzard...

Crush your enemies,
See them driven before you,
And hear the lamentations of the women and children.

sui2k

haha Blizz must be srsly pissed by Bossland, they already got 5 pending lawsuits against him in germany .. now they gonna try it in the US? next fail incoming.

Dakeru

Destroy this plague of online gaming!

Righteous_Rock

Sometimes they're better than you and sometimes they're cheating.... No Hanzo, no widowmaker and still they wrap the corner with purpose and are on target quicker than you can say ambisol.

marganculos

if i remember right they did not win single one vs Bossland in last few years lol -.-

Azaron_Nightblade

marganculos said:

if i remember right they did not win single one vs Bossland in last few years lol -.-

Probably because the judges don't give a damn about what happens in a game. They're all "LOL, these nerds... getting uppity over a little cheat. Now if someone had put a scratch on their Lamborghini or something, then I could relate to their problems, but this is just silly... NEXT!"

marganculos

Azaron_Nightblade said:

marganculos said:

if i remember right they did not win single one vs Bossland in last few years lol -.-

Probably because the judges don't give a damn about what happens in a game. They're all "LOL, these nerds... getting uppity over a little cheat. Now if someone had put a scratch on their Lamborghini or something, then I could relate to their problems, but this is just silly... NEXT!"

well, if you can get arrested somewhere for having pencil hand-drawn loli porn pictures in your PC... i think everything is possible

DEATHRAMENT

Awsome

Jermzy

Waiting for all the legacy server advocates to jump in and say Blizzard will need to make a Bossland server so they can play it like they did in the 'old' days.

LoMaX21

Really don't understand the need for cheating in games like these.. or any games for that matter

Zendai

Fuck cheaters. Kill'em.

josko9

Ah Blizzard loud as always, and yet not doing much. Their games are so easily hacked it's not even funny anymore. Be it WoW battlegrounds, or Overwatch it feels like you're either playing with cheaters or bots, and that's happening every single queue.

Iselin

Don't poke the bear. Especially not the bear that's big enough to have its own legal department.

Margrave

awesome

Tiller

Could just be a symbolic lawsuit to convince lawmakers in various countries to change laws regarding hacking and cheating programs in games.

Deltois

Good keep the best game on the market shit ass prick free.

Precusor

sui2k said:

haha Blizz must be srsly pissed by Bossland, they already got 5 pending lawsuits against him in germany .. now they gonna try it in the US? next fail incoming.

they're trying to bankrupt him.

Seelinnikoi

I am very disappointed that Bossland did not make a bot for Battleborn...

With all the players leaving and the game taking 20+ minutes to find a match, I think some bots would have been a godsend lol...

Milander

Hope they wipe the slimy bugger from the face of the earth. Getting sick and tired of their "But WE didn't do anything illegal. The people who used our software did!" crap...That is just about the same as Amazon saying "But we didn't break any laws! We just sold them the plans, the materials and the chemicals. The buyer was the one who put the binary chemical bomb together!" Ok ok yeah I know different level in crime but still the same concept.

Akulas

What if you use an onion router and change your company name?

mbrodie

it's funny all the people think that blizzard is losing....

Banwaves every 6 months on HB like clockwork pushing their user base further and further away as the only people having confidence are suicide botters who don't care about losing accounts.

lawsuit after lawsuit and while blizzards money is damn near endless and they own their own legal department Bosslands is finite and will run out eventually.

the fact that they changed the pricing structure shows how desperate times are getting also

and overwatch's detection is top notch, everyone is getting caught eventually... Bosslands own overwatch hack had 6 days of life until it was shut down still hasn't come back up yet. sure there is some private ones, but eventually they'll all go down.

Blizzard isnt looking for quick win's in court, it's slowly destroying the bot makers brand to show other companies... it doesn't matter how long it takes eventually they will win

esc-joconnor

Ha! I hope it gets thrown out. It's a game, make it more secure in the first place. Probably would cost less than the lawyer fees.

mbrodie

Milander said:

Hope they wipe the slimy bugger from the face of the earth. Getting sick and tired of their "But WE didn't do anything illegal. The people who used our software did!" crap...That is just about the same as Amazon saying "But we didn't break any laws! We just sold them the plans, the materials and the chemicals. The buyer was the one who put the binary chemical bomb together!" Ok ok yeah I know different level in crime but still the same concept.

i tend to disagree with you there, cheating in a game is not a criminal offence, it's immoral at best.

no one can be charged and go to jail for cheating in an online game, however you can be detained and charged with conspiracy or attempting terrorism etc... if you buy the parts to do so.

breaking ToS is not akin to breaking laws.