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Blizzard wins vs Peons 4 Hire in Court

Posted Sep 17, 2008 by Zyuu

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The lawsuit Blizzard Entertainment filed vs Peons 4 Hire in May 2007 is over. And the result is great! Blizzard won and Peons 4 Hire has been permanently expelled from World of Warcraft. Blizzard surely keeps an agressive stance towards companies such as this -- probably one of the most agressive companies in the industry. We all know the players of WoW appreciate it, though. No more spam from Peons 4 Hire in game. It's great that Blizzard won, I truly hope this is just the beginning and other companies follow suit. The entire complaint can be downloaded in .pdf here.


Making any use of the World of Warcraft in-game communication or chat system to advertise any website, business, or commercial endeavor, including any business associated with In Game Dollar, LLC or www.peons4hire.com.


Sending messages to the World of Warcraft servers, the World of Warcraft in-game communication or chat system or any other computer used by Blizzard in connection with the World of Warcraft game, if such messages mention or advertise the website www.peons4hire.com, In Game Dollar LLC or any other commercial endeavor.


Making any unauthorized use, or obtaining any unauthorized access to Blizzards computer systems or network.


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  • Ardman said 
    Sat, Feb 2 2008 4:42 PM ()

    lol Way to go Blizz . Now get the rest of them out of the game .

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  • Avrsion said 
    Sat, Feb 2 2008 4:42 PM ()

    Blizzard crits Peons4Hire for $10000000000000000

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  • Lothaer said 
    Sat, Feb 2 2008 4:42 PM ()

    .... these people are like roaches, you kill one and 1000 more takes its place.

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  • h41fgod said 
    Sat, Feb 2 2008 4:42 PM ()

    Yeah, powned, and now just sue everyone who advertise. Not just one.

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  • Foxuno said 
    Sat, Feb 2 2008 4:42 PM ()

    If only they could do the same for their unofficial replacement, gmworking... or the other one, gold4guild...

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  • Adelante said 
    Sat, Feb 2 2008 4:42 PM ()

    Frankly, now that this case is on the books, it sets the precedent for similar cases and will allow Blizzard to fairly swiftly deal with similar operations in the future. However, this is not to say that this will end gold-spam, as this "industry" is relatively high-profit and doesn't require any particular skills, or even an employee beyond the scripters.

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  • Flisher said 
    Sat, Feb 2 2008 4:42 PM ()

    The problem is that law and injunction isn't respected in rogue country.
    While this is interesting for the player, new compagny will have their frontend in country where the foreign law aren't respected :(

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  • frumpyandy said 
    Sat, Feb 2 2008 4:42 PM ()

    this doesn't mention any sort of monetary settlement between peons4hire and blizzard...but i wouldn't be surprised if there was a fee or some kind of fine that blizzard won...which was money wow players spent at peons4hire to get wow gold...which means blizzard has even more of the players' money now...

    just seems like quite a hassle...though it sort of presents a reason for blizzard not to sell gold (since if blizzard sold gold, it would almost definitely put the gold selling websites out of business)...Blizzard Execs: "Ok, so we have no reason to sell gold on our website in order to put gold sellers out of business, because if we allow them to do all their own marketing and get a large enough share of our userbase, we can just sue them and take all that money anyhow, without having to do any of the marketing work, plus we're required by law to pay our employees more than the gold farmers get paid, so it's a win-win!"

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  • Anei said 
    Sat, Feb 2 2008 4:42 PM ()

    actually, you are wrong Peons didn't lose and Blizzard didn't win.

    It was settled, which in the legal world means nothing. What would have happened is Blizzard had a word outta court, to which Peons said 'oh ***. ok'.

    Noone legally won, and noone legally lost. they'll be back ;-)

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  • Guillotine said 
    Sat, Feb 2 2008 4:42 PM ()

    Anei is correct, this was a settlement, not a court battle. While it is still legally binding, it does not provide any sort of precedent if Blizzard goes after another company that ends up going to court.

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