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Blizzard, the company behind World of Warcraft, is suing Michael Donnelly, the creator of Glider bot which can 'play' Warcraft, on the grounds of a very technical copyright breach.
The makers of World of Warcraft are locked in a legal battle with a firm that has produced a tool to automate many actions in the virtual world.
Blizzard is suing Michael Donnelly, the creator of the MMO Glider program, which performs key tasks in the game automatically, such as fighting.
Mr Donnelly says his tool does not infringe Blizzard's copyright because no "copy" of the Warcraft game client software is ever made.
Blizzard has said the tool infringes copyright because it copies the game into RAM in order to avoid detection by anti-cheat software.
The two parties are now awaiting a summary judgement in the case.
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