Legal Opinion
MDY Industries, LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
District Court, D. Arizona
Decided January 28, 2009No. CV-06-2555-PHX-DGCPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
DAVID G. CAMPBELL, District Judge.
This case concerns the hugely popular World of Warcraft computer game (“WoW”) and a software program known as Glider that plays WoW for its owners while those owners are away from their computer keyboards. The Court previously held Plaintiff/ Counterdefendant MDY Industries, Inc. (“MDY”) — the owner and distributor of Glider — liable to Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and Vivendi Games, Inc. (collectively, “Blizzard”) — the owners and distributors of WoW — for tortious interference with contract, contributory copyright infringement, and vicarious copyright…
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