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Old 09-06-2010, 08:56 AM   #14
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Re: Looking for MUD that allow bots

What have beliefs got to do with agreeing to an EULA which states clearly that botting is not allowed? You dont get into WOW without agreeing to it, you dont get a single update with agreeing to it and so on. Its their IP, and their rules and he broke them to make money.

The story is here,



he was originally up for infringment of copywrite which can carry.. what.. between $500 and £35000 dollar fine? He countersued as he seemed to think (I believe) that as his program existed in memory and didnt alter any code it was ok.

It went to high court which didnt need to happen.. and the court found him guilty and he was sued for $6 million as he was in breach of the license, and his program copied parts of the game sourcecode so to avoid a system called Warden.

So the lesson, if you want to exercise your "beliefs" to make a bot for SOMEONE ELSES GAME, check the small print

Invariably the game developers / programmers have put a hell of a lot more time into the game that the Botter and what gives them the right to decide it allright to automate the game?

Botters ruin MMO games, regardless of how interesting AI is.

Again, not an attack on you Aeran, just illegal botting as a whole.
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