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Given how liberally the DMCA is applied, you definitely don't want to be on the wrong side of that. I remember some guy that wrote a WoW bot and got sued using
by mckirk 3y ago
Given how liberally the DMCA is applied, you definitely don't want to be on the wrong side of that.
I remember some guy that wrote a WoW bot and got sued using the DMCA, with the argument that his bot was circumventing the anti-cheat and the anti-cheat could be seen as a 'mechanism protecting copyrighted material', because it was safeguarding access to the game servers, the servers were generating parts of the game world (such as sounds) dynamically, and those were under copyright... Wild stuff.
- judge2020 3y agoAs far a I know section 1201 has never been prosecuted. Distribution of the copyrighted material is what's focused on.
- mckirk 3y agoThis seems a good summary of the case I was talking about: https://massivelyop.com/2020/02/28/lawful-neutral-cheating-copyright-law-and-the-wow-glider-lawsuit/ https://massivelyop.com/2020/02/28/lawful-neutral-cheating-c...
- kkzz99 3y agoIt happened to Honorbuddy, a very advanced bot for World Of Warcraft made by a German company. The argument in relation to DMCA was that the bot was circumventing warden, the games anti-cheat system. The legal battle was long and they ultimately had to strip many features of the bot, until the company went under.