Quote Originally Posted by 'Owltoid',index.php?page=Thread&postID=172754#post 172754
Quote Originally Posted by 'Malekyth',index.php?page=Thread&postID=172749#pos t172749
You're drawing a conclusion based on your gut feeling about MouseCloner, not on actual facts. He did not necessarily deliberately misrepresent anything to Blizzard -- all we can really say with lots of caps and underlined words is that the confirmation from Blizzard was not based on a sufficient examination of the software. That's significant, but it's hardly a justification for using "fact" and "fraud" in the same breath.
I don't know your definition, but I believe if you leave out the questionable part of the story then I'd say it's misrepresentation.
"Deliberately misrepresent" are the critical two words there. I'm not saying he didn't, but the point is, we don't know, and Fur's coming off like he's been found guilty without a shadow of a doubt (ironically, in the context of how misrepresentation is eeevil). The worst we can say is that his nod from Blizzard is based on incomplete data and should be taken with a shaker of salt.

Incidentally, what would be MouseCloner's motivation to release software that he himself knows will be eventually squashed by Blizzard? He spends a lot of time coding and setting up his PayPal merchant, a lot of time pimping the software in forums ... only to get four or five payments of twelve bucks before it all explodes and associates him forevermore with shady activity? The cost-benefit ratio is not in line with deliberate fraud. It's reasonable to assume that he believes his software to be on the level and didn't leave anything out of that post to Blizzard on purpose. So I'm inclined to believe that the character assassination is going too far at this point.