Recent content by Lalithor

I'm fairly certain piracy costs industry money. The only way piracy doesn't cost an industry money is if there are people that buys multiple copies of a product for every person that pirates it and never follows through with a purchase. I don't know many people that buy multiple copies of games...

The reason she is getting charged $88 million dollars is because she was letting 427,000 people play WoW for free. I'm not sure how long the servers were up, but I think this lawsuit started sometime in 2009. That $88 million approximately works out to 1 year's subscription per player at the...

For those wondering where the $ values came from, an article on gamasutra had a few additonal details: "The judge's order said Blizzard "submitted satisfactory evidence from third-party PayPal Inc. showing that Defendant?s PayPal account received $3,052,339 in gross revenues." The order...