[WOW] Glider author lawsuit

[Siddar]

Originally Posted by Kreugen

Give it away for free? Nothing they can do. Make a couple million dollars for it? Yeah, you're fucked.

They can get a damage award for $ they say your free software cost them and them make sure you stay poor forever.

There is a limited amount of people that would be able and willing to make something like glider so unlike riaa targeting millions of file downloaders blizzard going after the few dozen people makeing these programs would probally shut whole thing down free software or not. One million dollar award against one person makeing these would probally be enough to scare the rest off.

[Siddar]

I also expect glider to cave very soon they are going to loose and loose badly if they continue they are also going to set a very bad precedent for others if they keep going.

The online nature of Mmogs and that fact that altering the game both impacts a companys ability to sale a unaltered product and other consumers ability to buy a unaltered product means courts are going to be very hostile to people makeing products like glider.

Looking at the different types of software copyright violations not all have same impacts some have almost zero impact while others have very large impacts,

Single player game you alter it company can continue to sale unaltered game consumers can continue buying it.

Move Music downloading compant is hurt by looseing sales but other consumers are not prevented from buying product.

This is not the case people fighting against copyright laws want to be the one that sets the standard. It is the worst possable type case they could use.

Mmog altering the game stops a company from being able to sale the product as they intended and stops the consumer from being able to buy it.

[Arbitrary]

I expect them to quietly cave right over to another country personally.

[Siddar]

Originally Posted by Arbitrary

I expect them to quietly cave right over to another country personally.

Could well happen after reading a google laywers response to ruleing (he wasnt happy) the thought occured to me of glider settling and then google tossing a buyout offer to glider as a payoff to just make this case disappear.

[spronk]

are you fucking high why the fuck would google ever buy glider...

glider will shutdown soon enough and the source given away, and someone else will pick it up and it'll start all over again. or did you forget that glider was originally another product that also got shutdown by blizzard...

[Miele]

Originally Posted by Siddar

Could well happen after reading a google laywers response to ruleing (he wasnt happy) the thought occured to me of glider settling and then google tossing a buyout offer to glider as a payoff to just make this case disappear.

Can you provide a link to this lawyer comment please?

[Siddar]

Originally Posted by Miele

Can you provide a link to this lawyer comment please?

The Patry Copyright Blog: The Strange Copyright World of Warcraft

[gnomad]

Originally Posted by Siddar

The Patry Copyright Blog: The Strange Copyright World of Warcraft

Very interesting read. Sounds like more Legislation from the bench that the extremely liberal courts are doing more and more of. They seem to have forgotten their charter under the Constitution.

From my read and a attorney friend of mine if the owner of Glider doesn't pursue this and get the EFF behind him then he deserves to loose his ass.

[Seryne]

Originally Posted by gnomad

Sounds like more Legislation from the bench that the extremely liberal courts are doing more and more of. They seem to have forgotten their charter under the Constitution.

Funny how those extremely conservative courts are legislating their extremely liberal views from the bench these days.

[Kolle]

i just hope blizzard doesn't permanently break model changing. if they aren't going to update druid forms after 4 years then i have to do it myself.

[gnomad]

Originally Posted by Seryne

Funny how those extremely conservative courts are legislating their extremely liberal views from the bench these days.

The decision is far from conservative but then of course you knew that and were only trying to troll.

Learn a little about the Constitution and the reach that the courts are supposed to have and then tell me that they are not legislating from the bench. BTW the court that the suit was brought in is known to be a liberal court like most left coast courts are.

Let me guess you think they are conservative since they ruled for the big corporation and against the little guy? ROFLMAO

[Roa]

Liberal courts have nothing to do with legislating from the bench, or vice versa; you even saying this makes you look like a retard who never took any law classes ever, and instead chose to listen to radio personalities who also never took any law classes, ever.

The beauty of our judicial system is that if the lower courts are wrong, it's correctable at a higher level. If this decision is so off-base, it will be corrected.

To keep it rather on topic, I don't like Glider and I hope they shut down.

[Ninen]

Originally Posted by Roa

The beauty of our judicial system is that if the lower courts are wrong, it's correctable at a higher level. If this decision is so off-base, it will be corrected.

Ahh if only this was true. O sure, it works on paper. But he who has the most expensive lawyers, who can drag it out the longest, who can make life the most unpleasant wins.

These days the courts and threat of court fees is a wonderful blunt instrument for any big man to wave around at the little guy. Be it Wow vs Glider, be it 5 man conglomerate vs 1 dude.

[gersrfc]

Originally Posted by Ninen

Ahh if only this was true. O sure, it works on paper. But he who has the most expensive lawyers, who can drag it out the longest, who can make life the most unpleasant wins.

These days the courts and threat of court fees is a wonderful blunt instrument for any big man to wave around at the little guy. Be it Wow vs Glider, be it 5 man conglomerate vs 1 dude.

Thats the real America right there.