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Blizzard Reportedly Suing Bot Maker Bossland

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
edited July 2016 in News & Features Discussion

imageBlizzard Reportedly Suing Bot Maker Bossland

According to TorrentFreak.com, Blizzard has filed a lawsuit in California against Bossland, the creator of an Overwatch cheat tool called Watchover Tyrant that allows users to see opponents' stats and locations. The lawsuit cites copyright infringement and unfair competition.

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  • ArskaaaArskaaa Member RarePosts: 1,265
    +1
  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,780
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  • HorusraHorusra Member EpicPosts: 4,411
    My advise to Blizzard...

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  • sui2ksui2k Member UncommonPosts: 30
    haha Blizz must be srsly pissed by Bossland, they already got 5 pending lawsuits against him in germany .. now they gonna try it in the US? next fail incoming.
  • DakeruDakeru Member EpicPosts: 3,802
    Destroy this plague of online gaming!
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  • Righteous_RockRighteous_Rock Member RarePosts: 1,234
    Sometimes they're better than you and sometimes they're cheating.... No Hanzo, no widowmaker and still they wrap the corner with purpose and are on target quicker than you can say ambisol.
  • marganculosmarganculos Member UncommonPosts: 334
    edited July 2016
    if i remember right they did not win single one vs Bossland in last few years lol -.-
  • Azaron_NightbladeAzaron_Nightblade Member EpicPosts: 4,829
    marganculos said:
    if i remember right they did not win single one vs Bossland in last few years lol -.-
    Probably because the judges don't give a damn about what happens in a game. They're all "LOL, these nerds... getting uppity over a little cheat. Now if someone had put a scratch on their Lamborghini or something, then I could relate to their problems, but this is just silly... NEXT!"

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  • marganculosmarganculos Member UncommonPosts: 334
    if i remember right they did not win single one vs Bossland in last few years lol -.-
    Probably because the judges don't give a damn about what happens in a game. They're all "LOL, these nerds... getting uppity over a little cheat. Now if someone had put a scratch on their Lamborghini or something, then I could relate to their problems, but this is just silly... NEXT!"
    well, if you can get arrested somewhere for having pencil hand-drawn loli porn pictures in your PC... i think everything is possible :dizzy:
  • DEATHRAMENTDEATHRAMENT Member UncommonPosts: 701
    Awsome
  • JermzyJermzy Member UncommonPosts: 211
    Waiting for all the legacy server advocates to jump in and say Blizzard will need to make a Bossland server so they can play it like they did in the 'old' days.
    Haroo!
  • LoMaX21LoMaX21 Member UncommonPosts: 26
    Really don't understand the need for cheating in games like these.. or any games for that matter
  • ZendaiZendai Member UncommonPosts: 115
    Fuck cheaters. Kill'em.
  • josko9josko9 Member RarePosts: 577
    Ah Blizzard loud as always, and yet not doing much. Their games are so easily hacked it's not even funny anymore. Be it WoW battlegrounds, or Overwatch it feels like you're either playing with cheaters or bots, and that's happening every single queue.
  • IselinIselin Member LegendaryPosts: 18,719
    Don't poke the bear. Especially not the bear that's big enough to have its own legal department.
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  • MargraveMargrave Member RarePosts: 1,370
    awesome
  • TillerTiller Member LegendaryPosts: 11,449
    edited July 2016
    Could just be a symbolic lawsuit to convince lawmakers in various countries to change laws regarding hacking and cheating programs in games.
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  • DeltoisDeltois Member UncommonPosts: 384
    Good keep the best game on the market shit ass prick free.
  • PrecusorPrecusor Member UncommonPosts: 3,589
    sui2k said:
    haha Blizz must be srsly pissed by Bossland, they already got 5 pending lawsuits against him in germany .. now they gonna try it in the US? next fail incoming.
    they're trying to bankrupt him.
  • SeelinnikoiSeelinnikoi Member RarePosts: 1,360
    edited July 2016
    I am very disappointed that Bossland did not make a bot for Battleborn...

    With all the players leaving and the game taking 20+ minutes to find a match, I think some bots would have been a godsend lol...
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  • MilanderMilander Member UncommonPosts: 178
    Hope they wipe the slimy bugger from the face of the earth. Getting sick and tired of their "But WE didn't do anything illegal. The people who used our software did!" crap...That is just about the same as Amazon saying "But we didn't break any laws! We just sold them the plans, the materials and the chemicals. The buyer was the one who put the binary chemical bomb together!" Ok ok yeah I know different level in crime but still the same concept.

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  • AkulasAkulas Member RarePosts: 3,028
    What if you use an onion router and change your company name?

    This isn't a signature, you just think it is.

  • mbrodiembrodie Member RarePosts: 1,504
    it's funny all the people think that blizzard is losing....

    Banwaves every 6 months on HB like clockwork pushing their user base further and further away as the only people having confidence are suicide botters who don't care about losing accounts.

    lawsuit after lawsuit and while blizzards money is damn near endless and they own their own legal department Bosslands is finite and will run out eventually.

    the fact that they changed the pricing structure shows how desperate times are getting also

    and overwatch's detection is top notch, everyone is getting caught eventually... Bosslands own overwatch hack had 6 days of life until it was shut down still hasn't come back up yet. sure there is some private ones, but eventually they'll all go down.

    Blizzard isnt looking for quick win's in court, it's slowly destroying the bot makers brand to show other companies... it doesn't matter how long it takes eventually they will win
  • esc-joconnoresc-joconnor Member RarePosts: 1,097
    Ha! I hope it gets thrown out. It's a game, make it more secure in the first place. Probably would cost less than the lawyer fees.
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  • mbrodiembrodie Member RarePosts: 1,504
    Milander said:
    Hope they wipe the slimy bugger from the face of the earth. Getting sick and tired of their "But WE didn't do anything illegal. The people who used our software did!" crap...That is just about the same as Amazon saying "But we didn't break any laws! We just sold them the plans, the materials and the chemicals. The buyer was the one who put the binary chemical bomb together!" Ok ok yeah I know different level in crime but still the same concept.
    i tend to disagree with you there, cheating in a game is not a criminal offence, it's immoral at best.

    no one can be charged and go to jail for cheating in an online game, however you can be detained and charged with conspiracy or attempting terrorism etc... if you buy the parts to do so.

    breaking ToS is not akin to breaking laws.
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