Blizzard Sues Private Server Company, Awarded $88M

[Cy-Kill]

Taken from Slashdot:

A private server company, Scapegaming (aka Alyson Reeves), was ordered to pay Blizzard Entertainment over $88 million in damages after losing a lawsuit that was concluded last week. Scapegaming was operating unauthorized World of Warcraft servers and using a micropayment system to collect money from the servers' user base, which according to the lawsuit amounted to just over $3 million. $85 million of that settlement was for statutory damages, and surprisingly only $63,000 in attorney's fees.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/0...ny-Awarded-88M

Here's a link to the summary of the lawsuit:

http://www.rfcexpress.com/lawsuit.asp?ID=51340

[SeeMeTrollin]

Dumbass shoulda closed the pserver while he still had the chance.

[SnOwBunZz]

He probably would've walked away with a severe warning if he didn't have a cash shop.

[Thas]

Dumbass shoulda closed the pserver while he still had the chance.

Indeed. Kinda idiotic to go against a company like Blizzard in the court ;o

[hobolord]

Holy crap...that server o.o.

[gloomba38]

using a micropayment system to collect money from the servers' user base,

Bad Scapegaming, bad!

I wonder if I ever played on that server...

[SnOwBunZz]

wonder if I ever played on that server...

I know I did...

only to ragequit 10mins later due to terrible latency.