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Quote Originally Posted by 'blast3r',index.php?page=Thread&postID=185977#post 185977
If they shut their servers down it shuts down their software. Software must phone home before it will run.
I wouldn't be surprised if they removed that requirement and released the software 'as is' via anonymous sources (torrents etc) to spite Bliz in light of loosing their court case.

That being said, I was always under the impression that Bliz was good with detection and dropping the ban-hammer on the users of that program. It makes me wonder how many people really used it for long periods of time. What would we expect to be the biggest price change? Cloth, Leather and World Drops? Or were they farming everything (herbs, minerals etc)?
They farm everything - and they look at loot tables and concentrate on areas with higher drop rates of world epics and rep items and such. I havent run into any lately, but I saw one in operation in Storm Peaks grinding Relic of Ulduar.

They're fun to play with - tag the mob, let them kill it, you get the loot.

I don't think the code being released will accomplish much - trust me, Blizzard will be one of the first to nab it, they are not clueless when it comes to stuff like that. They can use the source code to make Warden spot any variations of the app that might be released.

In fact, the a-hole who wrote it is saying things that say to me he is NOT going to give away his work, and I would'nt doubt he'll be back in another form, from a country where they can't get him (good luck with that, the company Blizzard uses practices law everywhere, they're a global company), trying again. He made a LOT of money off that app, I guarantee he's not giving up. He could sell the source overseas for a lot of money, too.

What interests me is, now that the case is all but over, will Blizzard have their lawyers look into private servers, or go after the websites that host and discuss this stuff? The more notorious one actually had/has the balls to offer hosting and e-mail to pull off phishing scams, and they (the admins) said on their site they got Blizzard's attention when they started that, and moved the servers outside the US. Methinks they may get more attention now that the big case is done.