Editing Blizzard Entertainment (section)

=== ''MDY Industries, LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.'' ===
{{Main|Glider (bot)|MDY Industries, LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.}}
On July 14, 2008, the [[United States District Court for the District of Arizona]] ruled on the case ''MDY Industries, LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.''. The Court found that MDY was liable for [[copyright infringement]] since users of its [[glider (bot)|Glider]] bot program were breaking the End User License Agreement and Terms of Use for ''[[World of Warcraft]]''. MDY Industries appealed the judgment of the district court, and a judgment was delivered by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on December 14, 2010, in which the summary judgment against MDY for contributory copyright infringement was reversed.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/09-15932/920101214/ |title=MDY Industries, LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., et al. – Filing: 920101214 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809185925/http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/09-15932/920101214/ |archive-date=August 9, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/opinions/view_subpage.php?pk_id=0000011049 |title=Opinions - uscourts.gov |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807215541/http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/opinions/view_subpage.php?pk_id=0000011049 |archive-date=August 7, 2011}}</ref> Nevertheless, they ruled that the bot violated the [[Digital Millennium Copyright Act|DMCA]] and the case was sent back to the district court for review in light of this decision.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/mixed-ninth-circuit-ruling-mdy-v-blizzard-wow |title=A Mixed Ninth Circuit Ruling in MDY v. Blizzard: WoW Buyers Are Not Owners – But Glider Users Are Not Copyright Infringers Legal Analysis |author=McSherry |first=Corynne |date=December 14, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160721111903/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/mixed-ninth-circuit-ruling-mdy-v-blizzard-wow |archive-date=July 21, 2016 |publisher=[[Electronic Frontier Foundation]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Fred |last=von Lohmann |url=https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/you-bought-it-you-own-it-mdy-v-blizzard-appealed |author-link=Fred von Lohmann |title=You Bought It, You Own It: MDY v. Blizzard Appealed |publisher=[[Electronic Frontier Foundation]] |date=September 25, 2009 |access-date=October 8, 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090929091541/http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/you-bought-it-you-own-it-mdy-v-blizzard-appealed |archive-date=September 29, 2009}}</ref>

''MDY v. Blizzard''{{'}}s decision did affirm a prior Ninth Circuit ruling in ''[[Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc.]]'' that software licenses, such as the one used by Blizzard for ''WoW'', were enforceable and enshrined the principle that video games could be sold as licenses to players rather than purchased. This ruling, though limited to the states of the Ninth Circuit, has been used by the industry to continue to sell games as licenses to users.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Eichner | first= Andrew W. | title = Game Over, Insert Coin to Continue: Entering a New Era of Video Game Intellectual Property Enforcement. | journal = IDEA | volume = 53 | date = 2013 | page= 101 }}</ref>