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Shauk · 05-09-2008, 06:38 PM

http://virtuallyblind.com/2008/03/23...zzard-motions/

to summarize, Blizzard says "modifying our files is against the ToS/EULA"

the law on this seemingly has always been the case with any piece of software of this nature I'd think.

however, Glider was like "ok sure, no problem, we'll do everything in the RAM, it'll never make a modification to the files that way"

and therein lies the case.

what kind of precedent does it lay if all of a sudden computers are at risk of breaking hundreds of License agreements due to a precedent that could be set if this goes in blizzards favor.

this is getting incredibly sticky.

I mean hell, the text in this window is in my ram right now, but it's in the same space as firefox running on vista, is this post, in my ram, violating an agreement with Microsoft? Mozilla? The music playing from my MP3, I bought it but it was copied to my RAM, is this an illegal copy now?

see where I'm going with this?

05-09-2008, 06:38 PM	#1 (permalink)
Shauk Confused Adult Location: Spokane, WA	What kind of legal precedent does the Blizzard/MDY case threaten us with? http://virtuallyblind.com/2008/03/23...zzard-motions/ to summarize, Blizzard says "modifying our files is against the ToS/EULA" the law on this seemingly has always been the case with any piece of software of this nature I'd think. however, Glider was like "ok sure, no problem, we'll do everything in the RAM, it'll never make a modification to the files that way" and therein lies the case. what kind of precedent does it lay if all of a sudden computers are at risk of breaking hundreds of License agreements due to a precedent that could be set if this goes in blizzards favor. this is getting incredibly sticky. I mean hell, the text in this window is in my ram right now, but it's in the same space as firefox running on vista, is this post, in my ram, violating an agreement with Microsoft? Mozilla? The music playing from my MP3, I bought it but it was copied to my RAM, is this an illegal copy now? see where I'm going with this?