Blizzard Relents: Admits That It's Okay To Sell A Book About World Of Warcraft
from the oh,-you-mean-the-law-was-on-your-side? dept
Greg Beck, the attorney for Public Citizen who handled this case, writes in to let us know that Blizzard, makers of World of Warcraft have settled their case with the maker of a guide to the game. If you'll remember, the guidebook's author felt the need to sue Blizzard after they kept demanding eBay shut down auctions of the guidebook, despite the fact that there was nothing infringing in the book. Blizzard would issue DMCA takedown notices, which eBay would comply with. The author, Brian Kopp, would file a counterclaim which Blizzard would ignore. eBay would rightfully put the item back up... only to have Blizzard quickly hit them with another takedown notice. In this manner, they kept the book from being sold repeatedly, despite having no actual legal basis to do so. In the settlement, Blizzard agreed to stop sending such takedown notices, and Kopp agrees... um... to keep the book as it is now.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Blizzard
Free market economy--ain't it a b!+ch!!
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I thought he agreed to remove links to cheat sites.
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#2 AC: I hadn't heard that he had cheat site links. That makes me feel a whole lot more sympathetic to Blizzard. They can't possibly fix every exploit, there are probably too many small ones and any big ones are likely flaws inherint to the design. They can't do much about random websites, but someone profiting from selling hard copy of exploits or instructions on how to find them helps their players more than the equivalent ammount of labor invested in bug fixes.
Their tactics are still slimeball, but I'm getting pretty jaded to that from reading Techdirt daily. :)
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Brain fart
I meant for that to say something along the lines of: Someone profiting from selling hard copy [...] can actually be stopped, and doing so helps their players [...]
I obviously need more sleep.
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meh
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Re: meh
Six of one, half-dozen of the other.
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