What google did is akin to a phone book company featuring more promonently the phone numbers and addresses for various Chevy dealerships in all of the listings or yellowpages ads for the Ford dealerships. So, when call the first number or drive to the first address that you saw in a Ford dealership ad, you end up reaching a Chevy dealership simply because Chevy paid YellowBook (more)money to have their contact information show up more prominently in the Ford listings than Ford did. Not sure how this will turn out and IANAL but it seems to me that Google should lose this lawsuit.

Maybe if the competition tried to fill a niche that WoW doesn't instead of trying to copy them? There are plenty of niches that WoW doesn't bother to cater to. Full loot, FFA PvP, Sci-Fi, skill based system (like UO or original SWG), a fusion of FPS and RPG or RTS and RPG, etc. Instead of filling these niches and being content with a few hundred thousand subscribers (at least at first), the idiots calling the shots at these other development companies are trying to release games that are basically carbon copies of WoW, thinking that they can out WoW, WoW. Ain't happening.

If this were true then why wouldn't the Republican majority which allowed this investigation block it? If it is so broad as to be ripe for being abused, don't you think they would have stopped this?