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...can you legally disallow someone from modifying the sections of their RAM that your program is loaded (by loading a plugin)?
by windsurfer 15y ago
...can you legally disallow someone from modifying the sections of their RAM that your program is loaded (by loading a plugin)?
- dangrossman 15y agoYes. See Blizzard Entertainment/Vivendi vs. MDY Industries in 2008, a lawsuit over World of Warcraft bot software. Through a EULA, you can be barred from using software in certain ways; if you use it in one of those disallowed ways, then loading the program into RAM (launching it) becomes copyright infringement, and a plugin that helps you use the software outside its licensed scope is tortious interference with the EULA contract.
- MBlume 15y agoblinks this is one of the most horrifying things I've read in a while.