Private server company forced to pay Blizzard $88 million

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8-14-2010 @ 7:06PM

ironblade said...

holy crap thats alot of money for a private server company to fork out, but laws law, glad iv never gone to a private server never seen the point

8-14-2010 @ 7:54PM

Hooch [Quite possibly crazy] said...

Yeah, thing is though that it was used to make money via microtransactions, would probably be a lot smaller of a fine if they didn't do that.

8-14-2010 @ 11:11PM

paragorillabear said...

Read carefully. Only 3 million came from the inappropriate profits. The majority is just a penalty for infringing upon the copyright.

8-15-2010 @ 2:11AM

Gankedd said...

I kinda feel sorry for them. If it wasn't for scapegaming I wouldn't be playing wow monthly on 2 subscriptions.

8-15-2010 @ 3:38AM

The fines for commercial copyright infringement are supposed to be a lot higher than for non-commercial infringement.

This doesn't always work out as the Movie And Film Association of America has bought a lot of legislators in a futile attempt to stamp out casual infringement. It has gotten so bad in the US that you will get less of a fine for just going into a shop and stealing a CD then you would if you downloaded it.

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