The wonderful 'World of Warcraft' as all nerds alike know it...and um...non-nerds too.

In Warcraft you have a couple simple goals; to buy, sell, get weapons/armor, develop powerful magic spells, and farm a special product known as 'soul shards, and fight big and bad bosses. The game allows for you to join up with fellow crusaders on the Warcraft world to work together and take down foes. Pretty much everything is customizable to satisfy the Warcraft Addict. You can't really win; you just devote your life to making your character the best one in the Warcraft world.

Blizzard, creators of World of Warcraft or better known as WoW, won big today against a company who was selling illegal WoW software known as Glider made by MDY industries. Glider is described by MDY Industries as this; "Glider is a tool that plays your World of Warcraft character for you, the way you want it. It grinds, it loots, it skins, it heals, it even farms soul shards... without you"

Blizzard claimed that Glider software infringed on its copyright, the courts agreed that it broke lecense terms of the game. The program made players sign on by using the program and according to reports, the player must manually attack all monsters. You are not allowed to modify the game's contents.

Creator of Glider, Michael Donnelly, sold every copy of Glider for $25 and has sold over 100,000 copies of the game, which would equal about 2.5 million according to reports.

According to Neoseeker.com "Blizzard will be pocketing about $6 million from the suit, but "experts" say damages could have been worse if MDY hadn't won some of its arguments about the damages in the court room. In any case, Blizzard can still appeal the ruling which threw out its claim to double or triple the cash settlement."

The case is said to go to court once again in January 09'. The ruling is not quite sure if a penalty should be inflicted upon Donnelly or not, it may all come out his pocket. I guess when it comes down to it, is Glider cheating or not? And is it infringing upon Blizzard's copyright? Back to farming for 'Soul Shards' the old fashioned way. (c) tPC