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World of Warcraft Takes Down Cheat Bot in Copyright Quest (Update)

By Barry Barnett on December 15, 2010

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Happy holidays!

If you find World of Warcraft's first parts tedious — and Blawgletter, in spite of never having played the massively multi-player online game, guarantees that you will — you can cheat your way to WoW skills, fame, and wealth by hiring a bot to do the work for you.  Slackers everywhere rejoice!

But…

Posted in Intellectual Property

Infamy or Praise on DMCA “Sanity” Streak

By Barry Barnett on July 28, 2010

One of Blawgletter's favorites, Infamy or Praise, goes into Some Detail about recent hits the Digital Millennium Copyright Act has taken at the hands of the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Copyright Office.  Round Tuit riffs on lots of other cool stuff, too — liberal bias in our law schools, nuttiness over mentoring, and the art…

Posted in Antitrust

Fifth Circuit Cuts DMCA Down to Size; “Dongle” in the Software Jungle (Update)

By Barry Barnett on July 21, 2010

[See bottom of post for update on the Fifth Circuit's new opinion in the case.]

The software you use at work came from God knows where.  Perhaps the Internet.  But your copy features something the author didn't intend.  Unlike the version the author sells, this one has somehow disabled the security doodad that controls access to…

Posted in Antitrust

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Barnett is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a partner in Susman Godfrey’s Dallas and New York offices, and a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. With three decades of trial work representing both plaintiffs and defendants, Barnett is a master strategist in complex commercial litigation.

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