dota2-banner
All News
article-headline
General13 years agoGosu "GosuGamers" Gamers

Blizzard cracks down creators of hacks

Gamespot reported on Friday that Blizzard Entertainment sues at least three programmers, blaming them for creating and selling hacks for StarCraft 2, and therefore offending the end-user license agreement, Battle.net terms of use, and copyright law.

A couple of weeks ago Blizzard banned and suspended over 5,000 users for using hacks in the real-time strategy game. Only a few days later they filed a law suit in the Los Angeles US District Court against three people responsible for the creation of hacks.

In the suit it says: "Just days after the release of Starcraft II, Defendants already had developed, marketed, and distributed to the public a variety of hacks and cheats designed to modify (and in fact destroy) the Starcraft II online game experience. In fact, on the very day that Starcraft II was released, representatives of the hacks Web site advised members of the public that 'our staff is already planning new releases for this game.'"

As it is stated in the suit, the three accused programmers are "Permaphrost," "Cranix," and "Linuxawesome," with the first two being from Canada and the last one from Peru. Also named are the alleged hackers "Wiggley," "Zynastor", who is known for the Oblivion Hack in StarCraft Brood War, and "Dark Mage."

Blizzard also accuses the defendants of encouraging others to violate their copyright, explaining, "When users of the Hacks download, install, and use the Hacks, they copy StarCraft II copyrighted content into their computer's RAM in excess of the scope of their limited license, as set forth in the EULA and ToU, and create derivative works of StarCraft II."

As of yet, there is no official statement of Blizzard.

Links
Gamespot.com - Source

All Esports

Entertainment

GosuBattles

Account