Quote Originally Posted by Peri Helion View Post
Has anyone tried asking Blizzard?

I see from the various Follow threads there are members of this community that have contacted Blizzard directly in the past to determine if what they were doing were acceptable. I appreciate Ron taking one for the team and giving it a try, but even if he never gets banned it isnt conclusive.

I also see this degenerating into a marketing war (not on these pages though) as people with a vested economic interest in either elevating their own product or denegrating the author of their competitors software begin to make this personal and use a lot of adjectives and invective without any definitive statements from a clear and unbiased party.
Blizzard very rarely "approves" something, and often you don't know until bans start coming out. If you want to ask Blizzard "is it ok to have another program read the binary so that my slaves will move on their own?" then go ahead - waste of time for something that is clearly against the rules.

There is no marketing war here, unless you're suggesting that others are trying to market their botting program over oFollow. This isn't a ISBoxer vs Keyclone vs HKN vs PwnBoxer debate - this is a debate whether a gimped botting program is ok because it simulates functionality that existed in the past.