World of Warcraft
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Gamasutra has reported that Blizzard won a court case against Scapegaming for hosting a World of Warcraft private server.
The suit, which was won in a default judgment (Alyson Reeves, owner of Scapegaming, did not respond to the suit), ended up with a final judgment of about $88 million. The sum comes from $3 million dollars in micro-transaction profits (found in the defendant's PayPal records), $64,000 in attorney's fees, and over $85 million in statutory damages based on the number of community members making use of the private servers.
Considering that World of Warcraft cost about $100 million to make, and a few hundred to million to maintain over the past six years ($200 million from 2004-2008), it's clear Scapegaming will pay a pretty steep cost in the end to violate the EULA of the world's most popular MMORPG.
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