Saturday, July 27, 2013

World of Warcraft, ordered to pay 69 million euros to Blizzard

The official servers online role-playing game World of Warcraft, Blizzard are not the only ones who fill the coffers of the company in California. A judge has sentenced a portal that offered Internet users the ability to play 'online' charge to compensate the parents also Stacraft II with 68.9 million euros (over 88 million).

Margaret M. Morrow, Judge of the Central District Court of California ruled in favor of Blizzard and sentenced him to the portal Scapegaming-specializing in PC games- for violation of intellectual property . The portal, now closed, was an opportunity to play the game more successful company without paying monthly fees required.

The complaint, filed by Blizzard in October 2009, denounced not only the fact of violating the 'copyright' distributor, Scapegaming also obtained profit by selling virtual items to players with which to equip their characters, as Gamespot reports .

Thus, the owner of the site, Alyson Reeves, must pay 2.3 million euros ($ 3 million) for illegally obtained benefits, 66.3 million euros (85.4 buy world of warcraft gold million dollars) in damages and damages and 49,348 euros ($ 63,600) runescape 07 gold in legal fees. Reeves also have to pay interest on the outstanding balance of fines until paid in full.


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