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Blizzard Wins $88M from Girl Operating WOW Private Servers

By pete_gallagher

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In case you missed it, World of Warcraft developer Blizzard recently scored a whopping $88,594,539 judgment against a company that was operating and charging players to access World of Warcraft emulator servers.

The ruling was handed down on August 10 the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California and targeted Alyson Reeves, who was operating under the business name of ScapeGaming. The huge dollar figure was calculated by combining the $3,052,339 the defendant received from users of her service via Paypal, statutory damages of $85,478,600 (calculated by multiplying ScapeGaming's 427,393 users times the statutory minimum of $200 per 'act of circumvention and/or performance of service') and another $63,600 in attorney's fees.

Additionally, if Reeves has trouble paying, she will see post-judgment interest accumulate at the 'rate provided by law' until the entire sum is recovered.

Court documents reveal that up to 32,000 players were using the organization's servers each day.

A statement from Blizzard on its victory read: Read More

Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on August 18, 2010 (boomark / email).