SAN FRANCISCO — Lawyers in the online gaming world are mulling how they can game a recent federal appeals decision.
On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals shut down Michael Donnelly’s Glider bot, which plays the game “World of Warcraft” for users on autopilot when they’re away from their computer. The court ruled the program violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act because it circumvented technology designed to protect copyrighted material.
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