Blizzard sued the manufacturer of cheats and hacks for their games $ 8.5 million

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Blizzard Entertainment won a copyright infringement case . The respondent in this process was the developer of cheats and hacks for several popular Blizzard games. We are talking about the German company Bossland, which has been creating "improvements" for the products of the American developer and game publisher for many years. The plaintiff managed to get a decision to pay $ 8.5 million from the defendant as compensation for the damage caused. In addition, the cheats and hacks of Bossland can not be sold in the United States.

Court disputes between Blizzard and Bossland have been going on for many years . In particular, in 2015, Blizzard filed a lawsuit against James Enright (Aros), who was believed to be at the head of Bossland, a company that produces software for World of Warcraft, Diablo, Heroes of Storm and other games. Representatives of Blizzard claim that Bossland bots and hacks disrupt the normal course of the gameplay and cause Blizzard financial damage. Ordinary honest gamers, according to representatives of the American company, cannot fully enjoy the game because of cheaters and stop playing. All this leads to a million losses.

Moreover, Bossland does not produce a free product, we are talking about software, a copy of which costs $ 23 and up. The market of cheats and hacks is constantly growing, respectively, and the profit of developers of corresponding software products increases.
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"The Bossland software damages Blizzard, creating the Bossland Hacks, as well as instructing users on how to install and manage this software, which allows gamers to disrupt the gameplay," the court said.

The court counted by Bossland 42,818 violations within the United States, which cost the defendant a large sum of $ 8,563,600. In addition, the defendant also reimburses court costs. Earlier, Blizzard, in order to prove its case in court, cited data from a specialized study , which shows that the use of bots generates significant in-game currency flows. And this, in turn, raises the prices of gaming items for ordinary players.

As for banning the sale of their products within the United States, here we are talking about cheats with the names "Honorbuddy", "Demonbuddy", "Stormbuddy", "Hearthbuddy", and "Watchover Tyrant" as well as other software that is relevant .

CEO Bossland Tsvetan Letshju (Zwetan Letschew) told the Torrentfreak publication that his company is going to continue to fight in court with an unfair sentence. Whatever it was, but the cheats and hacks of this company are available outside the United States. And if the server with the site selling this product is geographically located outside the jurisdiction of the United States, then what prevents American gamers from buying their cheat there? This is probably a rhetorical question.