A judge at the California Central District Court ruled that Scapegaming (also known as AlysonReeves) has lost its case against Blizzard. Scapegaming had created private Blizzard servers, which also had a microtransactions market. Blizzard filed a lawsuit against them for copyright infringement in October 2009.
As we've previously discussed, private servers are an infringement of the license restrictions of the EULA. Blizzard considers violating these license limitations copyright infringement and sues anyone for it. Furthermore, Blizzard established in the "Bnetd" case that creating software to set up a private server is a copyright violation all on its own.
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The total amount of $88,594,589 is made up of $3,053,339 in inappropriate profits and attorney's fees of $63,600 and $85,478,600 in legal damages. Statutory damages are damages stipulated by law and increased in the event of willful and commercially justified infringement. Scapegaming can appeal the amount.