I'm seconding this. Getting hit by an $88 million bill sucks (and is excessive, mostly in the sense that she's never going to pay it off and Blizz knows this), but this lady brought it upon herself.Zachary Amaranth said:While the amount may be disproportionate and the DMCA is needlessly restrictive, this seems to be exactly the way copyright should work. It's a case in which someone is actually using your product to make money. This isn't some big company bullying a questionable case of fair use, or even a case of restricting technology. What Scapegaming did should fall under the basic concepts of copyright.DamienHell said:Further proof that copy write laws are broken.
Reverse engineering the server code to host your own private servers, with all the copyright violations this entails, is already somewhat dodgy and perfectly worthy of a C&D, but charging people for items on top of it all is shamelessly greedy and very probably the reason she got singled out of the metric ton of private servers floating around. I have absolutely no sympathy for that leech, and would only wish her sentence scaled back to something reasonable so she can get a job and pay it back instead of filing for bankrupcy and mooching off state handouts.