{"id":116577,"date":"2017-04-04T17:33:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T15:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=116577"},"modified":"2017-04-04T17:34:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T15:34:18","slug":"blizzard-wins-8-5-million-lawsuit-against-cheat-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/116577-blizzard-wins-8-5-million-lawsuit-against-cheat-maker","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard wins $8.5 million lawsuit against cheat maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0Californian court has granted Blizzard a judgement against Bossland, a German bot maker, reported\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/blizzard-beats-cheat-maker-wins-85-million-copyright-damages-170403\/\" target=\"_blank\">TorrentFreak<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling comes after\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/202798-blizzard-wants-8-5-million-in-damages-from-cheat-maker.html\">Blizzard filed<\/a><\/strong> for $8.5 million in damages from Bossland for copyright infringement and\u00a0selling bots that\u00a0give players an advantage in Blizzard\u2019s games.<\/p>\n<p>These games included World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Hearthstone.<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard filed its case in the US after\u00a0receiving a victory against Bossland in Germany. A German court stated that\u00a0bots damage the game for legitimate players by providing an unfair advantage.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Californian court awarded Blizzard a total of $8.7 million, which includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Non-punitive, statutory damages \u2013\u00a0<strong>$8.5 million<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Attorneys\u2019 fees \u2013\u00a0<strong>$174,872<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The costs of suit \u2013\u00a0<strong>$1,763<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/205612-blizzard-wins-8-5-million-case-against-cheat-maker.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong> and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/204528-blizzard-unveils-starcraft-remastered.html\">Blizzard unveils StarCraft Remastered<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Californian court has granted Blizzard a judgement against Bossland, a German bot maker, reported TorrentFreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":31467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[665,173,8882,4353],"class_list":["post-116577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-blizzard","tag-cheating","tag-hacker","tag-lawsuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116579,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116577\/revisions\/116579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}