On August 10, 2010, the United States District Court for the Central District of California granted Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., the publisher of the online computer game World of Warcraft, $88.5 million in a copyright-infringement case against a Georgia resident. The game publisher filed suit in federal court in Los Angeles in October 2009 against Alyson Reeves of Savannah, Georgia, and five unidentified defendants.īlizzard is a premier publisher of online gaming software, including the popular computer games Diablo®, Starcraft® and Warcraft® gaming franchises. Many of Blizzard’s games feature online game play over the Internet via an online gaming service provided by Blizzard. Blizzards’s World of Warcraft (“WoW”) is the company’s most advanced online computer game in a genre referred to in the industry as Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game (“MMORPG”), a genre of computer games in which large numbers of players interact with each other simultaneously in a virtual online world. WoW allows players from around the globe to assume roles of different characters within the game as they explore, adventure and quest across the Warcraft fantasy universe.
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