Where Politics And Video Games Collide

"People who complain about how this upsets the economy need to realise there’s been plenty of other factors ruining it"
Seriously, I'm on the Nazgrel realm. There's no botters or gold farmers ruining the economy. It's an army of people who don't know what they're doing sticking dozens of stacks of mithril and truesilver on the AH for 30 silver a stack. Simply put, Bots and Goldfarmers can damage the WoW economy. So can stupid people. Blizzard should ban all stupid people too. It makes just as much sense as:

"THAT IN BLIZZARD’S SOLE DETERMINATION: (i) ENABLES OR FACILITATES CHEATING OF ANY TYPE;" (from the EULA)
It essentially means, that if Blizzard considers you're sibling logging in to your account is cheating, they can legally ban your account. That's the supreme legal fire in this whole thing. Blizzard can ban anyone they want and just say something they were doing Blizzard considers cheating. Hey, you AFK'd out of Alterac Valley, that's cheating. BAM! Banned. You entire group just dropped out of a Warsong match! That's Cheating! BAM! Banned. It's a glorious use of loose terminology. Sucks for us, but Blizz gets that cash when you end up buying another account.

And for the dozen of you wanting this man to suffer like the ninth ring of hell for this because he's ruining your 'game'? I quoth William Shatner: "Get a life!" I play WoW, I see a bot, I don't fret. Someone wants to risk their account to take a shortcut? Feel free, it's their buck, not mine. Creating an unfair advantage? I can only assume you mean PvP, which is the same argument for any gank until you ding 70, regardless of bots or not, so just shut it. Destroying the economy? Get your guildies together and start a monopoly on something not so ridiculous on the AH, like Silk or Wool, and make your own fortune. Where there's a will there's a way, so stop complaining about how your precious toon is only level 16 and doesn't have 100 gold to twink yourself out.

Overall, I agree that they can ban anyone who uses this, and should try to. But Blizzard complaining that this program is unlawfully persuading users to cheat and get banned against their will is stupid, and the fact that they want this guy to turn over the source code, customer records, profits, domain name - that seems kinda messed up. Especially since they really are suing a guy for making a really good macro (It really boils down to it).

As someone on the WoWGlider forums has stated, if this does go through, there will probably be an anonymous Glider that'll appear in another six months to retaliate. And we repeat.