Er... no.

"seriously, if i have an epic lvl 60 that i earned, i deserve the respect i get when im walking through town showing off tier 3 armor and epic mount. when theres 50 other people wearing the same armor, who didnt work for years like me, THEY CHEAPEN MY GAME! how can you not see that they ruin the game for everyone!"

Right. Boy does that suck. So, you must be livid about the new greens in Burning Crusade (30 spell damage 30 stamina level 62 *craftable* green boots, anyone?), and absolutely infuriated by how easy it is to get pvp gear in 2.0??

Because a whole bunch of people *busted their butts* HARDCORE to get AQ40/Naxx/Grand Marshall gear in the old system, and now Blizzard is going to be handing it out like candy because "it isn't fair to the casuals."

So using your own logic, this is different from and more acceptable than botting *how*, exactly?

I'm a little late to the party. Tough.

Wow, a lot of folks here seriously don't know how to read. Glider's creator isn't trying to sue for damages, he isn't trying to sue to force Blizzard to allow people to bot, he's barely even suing at all. He's asking the court to declare that selling a program which doesn't modify or use* the content of WoW in any way doesn't constitute *copyright infringement.*

I don't bot, but I've looked at the Glider forums and seen a vast number of them interpret the suit the same way many of you folks are: suing for a right to bot, blah blah blah. And here I thought such lack of comprehension was wilfull, based on an ulterior motive. Maybe it's just that nobody knows how to read for comprehension anymore...

Oh and the churro analogy is absolutely horrible. It isn't even remotely accurate. A much better way to encapsulate this, using churros, would be to say that the Glider-guy is creating a product that helps people sneak food into the movies when they're 'supposed' to spend way-too-much for theater-food. See, food isn't illegal; it's just that bringing it into the movies is against *the theater's* rules. But could you imagine a theater trying to call the cops on you for sneaking in a soda?

Further, could you imagine the theather claiming you had infringed their copyright by bringing food into the theater?**

Sound ridiculous? That's pretty much what Blizzard is saying. Distance yourself from your emotional connection to it and you'll see it's pretty ludicrious, hate botters or not.***

*(and by which I mean there is no Blizz-copyrighted content in Glider's promotional material, interface, etc- it's just a bunch of text. Zero taurens are visible, etc.)

**let's just assume the theater also produces the food, for the sake of not splitting hairs

***and boy do I hate botters. but my personal feelings don't change the fact that blizzard is clearly overreaching the law in an attempt to intimidate a problem they can't solve into ceasing its own existence voluntarily.