Sprawl-zero1eye- posted:

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It's easier to play the game then to try to skirt the rules and setup a bot, imho.

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[12] We conclude that for a licensee’s violation of a contract
to constitute copyright infringement, there must be a
nexus between the condition and the licensor’s exclusive
rights of copyright.4 Here, WoW players do not commit copyright
infringement by using Glider in violation of the ToU.
MDY is thus not liable for secondary copyright infringement,
which requires the existence of direct copyright infringement.
Grokster, 545 U.S. at 930.
It follows that because MDY does not infringe Blizzard’s
copyrights, we need not resolve MDY’s contention that Blizzard
commits copyright misuse. Copyright misuse is an equitable
defense to copyright infringement, the contours of which
are still being defined. See Practice Mgmt. Info. Corp. v. Am.
Med. Ass’n, 121 F.3d 516, 520 (9th Cir. 1997). The remedy
for copyright misuse is to deny the copyright holder the right
to enforce its copyright during the period of misuse. Since
MDY does not infringe, we do not consider whether Blizzard
committed copyright misuse.
We thus reverse the district court’s grant of summary judgment
to Blizzard on its secondary copyright infringement
claims. Accordingly, we must also vacate the portion of the
district court’s permanent injunction that barred MDY and
Donnelly from “infringing, or contributing to the infringement
of, Blizzard’s copyrights in WoW software.”

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