Blizzard Squeezes $88 Million From Private Server Owner

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XXstrangerXX

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Funny how they gave a ruling when the server is still up and running. xtremetop100.com/ They, along with hundreds of other servers, are listed there. Just a new name. Apparently for her NOT to get the DMCA notices she was paying someone from Blizzard. She never out right said that but when asked it is what she implied. I could be wrong. Half the words that came out of her mouth were over exaggerated and obviously not the truth. Listening to her talk was always about her, her, her, her and more her. If she wasn't involved then it wasn't important. And believe it when I say listening to her voice made you want to cut out your ear drums.

She will find some way out of it. She is sneaky, manipulating, and conniving. It was never about the server. It was always about ripping those people off for however much she could get.
She didn't start the server. She convinced someone who was underage to give over everything. Then gave them the boot. That is the gist. Short and sweet.

The donations were supposed to only be used for server costs. Which, had she only done that, would've kept it from being shut down like it was. Instead she used money for personal reasons which she admitted to. She bragged about how she started her own this and that but no one cared. She got flamed every time she posted something stupid and personal. She dug her own grave.

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That FIRST employer is apparently where she dumped all of her money. Good job Blizzard. You are now inducted into the music industry.
 

JerrytheBullfrog

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Klagermeister said:
This is making me rethink wanting to work for them after college...
88 million? I'm not sure, but I'm betting this is just an average joe with average income.
I couldn't imagine having to pay 88 million outta my own wallet.
An average joe who made $3 million off of Blizzard's property. ;)

That's what "disgorgement" means. You have to give up all the money you got illegally.
 

ReaperzXIII

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I'm guessing Blizzard needed $88 million to fill up their money kiddy pool, now if they wanted to fill their normal pool of money we would be going well into billions.

ENN gave us the Blizzard Warning its only a matter of time before they buy the internet, the world, our lives and everything in the milkyway
 

Lucifron

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Don Kotick sends his regards.

There is such a thing as overkill. I'll parrot the rest of this forum and say: this is it.
 

Albino Boo

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ReaperzXIII said:
I'm guessing Blizzard needed $88 million to fill up their money kiddy pool, now if they wanted to fill their normal pool of money we would be going well into billions.

ENN gave us the Blizzard Warning its only a matter of time before they buy the internet, the world, our lives and everything in the milkyway
Small but important point they only made $113 million last year and lost $108 million the year before.
 

Wardnath

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ciortas1 said:
Kotick is above anyone at Blizzard in the chain of command, so take from that what you will.
And Vivendi are above and beyond him.

Basically, your point being?
 

the wako kid

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Sonicron said:
If she's smart she'll use the money she's been hiding under the matress to buy a shotgun and blow her bonce off.
I mean, honestly - what else is there to do when you get slapped with a sentence like that?
if she kills herself the debt will be passed to her relatives i think so if she did kill herself now her kids and parents and kid are screwed.nice way to do overkill blizzard.this woman shoulda done it with a free mmo and not fucked with blizzard.they are the juggernaut *****!
 

Wardnath

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ciortas1 said:
Wardnath said:
ciortas1 said:
Kotick is above anyone at Blizzard in the chain of command, so take from that what you will.
And Vivendi are above and beyond him.

Basically, your point being?
My point being, it's Kotick who has to please Vivendi's shareholders now, not Mike Morhaime or whoever it was at Blizzard.

Unless you're implying that Vivendi is partial to Blizzard's leaders, but if that were the case, one of them would have been assigned as the head of ActiBlizz, and not Kotick.
I see. I seem to have read that as implying that he's got some measure of control over Blizzard or whatever. >_>

I fail hard sometimes. v_v
ciortas1 said:
It's no news that the law bends at the feet of businessmen.
Unfortunately.

But as it stands, she chose to profit off someone else's product (to the tune of seven figures, no less), ignored the C&D, and is now being punished for it.

I don't really have much sympathy for her, if anything I'll just point and laugh at her for being an utter dumbfuck.
 

Albino Boo

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Dexter111 said:
Since when are server emulators "illegal" as some, even the main article would imply?

They are pieces of software, developed and written from the ground up completely separately from the clientside of a game and do not fall under any kind of copyright by respective companies... They're not even "illegal" in the US as far as I know, not to talk about the other largest part of the world where they clearly are not.
They do when they work around the drm included in the said client, which is an infringement under the dcma for a start.
 

OneOfNone

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the emulators (as in the program that runs the files) themselves are rarely illegal. But the reverse engineering required to run a pirate warcraft server is. Which means the software itself used in the emulators is.

Now, if blizz had been providing you with server software to run specifically for private servers (which they arent, and wont), you wouldnt be in trouble, unless you did something stupid like try to make money off their software (like selling items/gold....)

She had it coming due to being exeptionally stupid. She sold items, she hosted a private server....

Also, you do not own the software. You own the box, the papers and the cd's. But you rent the client that you use to connect to blizzard servers. You can do anything you like with the physical copies, but altering the software itself is a no no.

Think of it like this. You buy a brand new Toyota. You can do anything you like with it, except reverse engineer the tech to put in your own brand of car that you sell to others. Because if you do, Toyota (and the others that own the patents you just stole) will be after everything you made off it, and then some. Just like Blizzard did to this person.
 

OneOfNone

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Alandoril said:
Blizzard has more money than God. This case just strikes me as vindictive.
by that logic, i can go into the local supermarket and fill a basket up, then leave without paying. I mean, they have waaay more money than me, no reason why they should go after my money.
 

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i quite like private servers, of preety much every game, i mean less time playing, therefor more time for other stuffs, and free, since sometimes get a tad hard to pay monthly fees >.<

Either ways, running a private server as a way to get money, i think its wrong and quite stupid, ur getting money from other people work, but putting that aside, this makes me hate blizzard a lil more.. they alredy have millions of millions (billions? probably) ... sigh.. people this days only think about money