Bot developer for World of Warcraft will pay a fine

    According to the preliminary conclusion of the trial, programmer Michael Donnelly, who is the developer of the popular Glider program , will be required to pay Blizzard a fine of $ 6 million. The American court ruled that this program violates the terms of the license of the game World of Warcraft, as well as Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The exact amount of the fine and other contentious issues have not yet been determined, and the trial will continue for at least a few more months.

    The Glider program allows you to control the actions of the game character at a time when the player himself is absent near the computer. It automates many routine actions (for example, killing monsters), automatically gaining "exp" and, thus, "pumping" the character. The program does not use any undocumented functions and does not change game files, but simply moves the mouse and presses buttons in the absence of a player, performing the task set by him.

    True, with incorrect settings, the program can accidentally kill other people's innocent animals (because they look like monsters), but the bot never attacks the other characters first. In the event of an attack, he responds, but in PvP mode, he fights very poorly. So hunting for bots in WoW is also a good business (the program has mechanisms to detect other characters nearby to hide on time).

    Blizzard constantly hunts players using Glider (for this purpose, the WoW client software scans RAM, hard disk, window titles, etc.) and blocks their accounts for a period of 72 hours to infinity. However, Michael Donnelly is not shy: he warns users about a possible danger and has developed a number of technical countermeasures that prevent the detection of the program.

    At the same time, Blizzard constantly updates client software and applies new detection methods, so Michael has to spend a lot of time on reverse engineering and releasing patches.

    According to preliminary estimates, Michael Donnelly and his company MDY Industries sold about 100,000 copies of the program for $ 25. Actually, you can buy the program now.

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