Class Action Lawsuit for invasion of privacy should be filed against Blizzard

Agreed, else just stop being an internet warrior and shut up while taking it from behind by Blizzard.

 

Ok, feel free to try. I hope you have several years and several hundred thousand dollars. Best of luck. Seriously it would be awesome for a little while, but the game would get overrun if people knew they won't get banned, the consequences for gaming in general could be huge and devastating for some types of games. I think its a pipe dream, but by all means you can go for it.

 

We should all take part in it. Your voice is stronger when there's a group over just one individual

 

you first OP, tell us how it goes.

 

Wasn't there a court case years ago against Blizz for scanning people's computers? Maybe around Glider days? I was under the impression that they were limited on what they could actually scan.

 

This already happened a few years ago in court blizzard is not allowed to touch anything that does not access world of warcraft directly They cannot scan your entire computer just the cpu processes and ram that interact with wow.

honorbuddy does attach it self to the client However they cannot scan your entire computer.

 

^ This. So quickly people forget.

Blizzard is limited.

If someone can prove that this is what they are doing, you can win your case in court.

 

There is one issue here that doesn't ring too well.

You are stating that you could have downloaded the game on a friends' PC.
That Blizzard has no way of confirming that you own the computer you download a game and agree to the terms of.

I studied law.
If your friend had knowledge that you downloaded their product to their pc, this would not allow for any repercussion against Blizzard due to the fact that your friend knew you were going to do this and should have read the terms of service along with you before allowing you to finalize the download in order to play the game.
Ignorance is not an excuse. The courts will tell you this. Also, there's the fact that you gave false information so this would not be considered an invasion of privacy.

If said friend had no knowledge or gave consent to your downloading the product and agreeing to their ToS, then you would be in the hot-seat for the so-called 'invasion' due to the fact that you gave wrongful information which, thereby, allowed for the scanning of a PC that you didn't own.
By your doing this, it's kind of like stealing one's identity. In this case, you are using their IP/MAC address to state you are them - falsification of information.
If anything, Blizzard could counter-sue based on that falsification of information and would, most likely, win said counter.

It doesn't matter the argument you come up with.
Either your friend knew you downloaded and agreed to the terms - or they didn't know.
Whether they did or didn't, the outcome is still going to come out in the favor of Blizzard because you falsified information and claimed ownership of something that wasn't yours to begin when you agreed to the Terms of Service.
Blizzard can't be held liable for not being able to confirm whether the computer is owned by you or someone else. It's a world of IP addresses in a situation such as this.
You electronically signed up. That's the bottom line.

But if you were a friend of mine and I saw that you downloaded something to my PC without my permission, you'd have some serious explaining to do.
Then I'd not only delete the program, I'd also delete you from my life as a so-called friend.

The salt in the forums is so real, Morton's could buy stock!

 

Speaking of lawsuit, there's one already on the way - let's see wait and see, October 6th is the day.
http://venturebeat.com/2016/05/22/g...online-games-and-bots-could-affect-entire-eu/

Regards,
JG

 

Going by the 4 questions at hand, it doesn't look good for Blizzard.

 

Yup, here's hoping for a solid victory by the HB team...

It still doesn't help anyone in the US, but could be good for at least German users.

 

Good link, but I'd say that question #1 is going to be the Prime subject of the case and Blizzard would have the upper hand on it. Let's be honest, bots do not improve the game for the general public, they are generally HATED by "legit" players, it wouldn't be difficult for blizzard to make the argument that bots in fact deter players from subscribing ( and they likely have proof through forum posts / reasons for quiting data ). Not to say Blizzard has the case "in the bag", I seriously hope Bosslands pulls a Win out of this one.