Black market antibiotics are made without regulation, and are one of the largest contributors to antibiotic resistance.
Assuming they were making good clean helpful drugs, then they aren't like Bossland, who aren't helping.
I said anabolics, as in steroids, not antibiotics. And they're helping cheaters cheat, which is exactly what Bossland is doing.
OK, I stand corrected on antibiotics vs anabiotics/whatever they're illegally producing but it doesn't change in any way my point - black market drugs are unregulated, and untested by the proper authorities, and as such unsafe, regardless of what they are, and they were developed at great cost by a different company who would like to recoup their cost legally by selling what they developed legally, etc... so sure, nitpick all you like.
My first point stands
It's like blizzard built a carpark, charged everyone $5 to park there, then some unaffiliated company sets up out front, stops people driving in, and offers them "easy parking service" for $10, pockets the money, drives round back, in through a no-public-access service entrance, then starts parking the cars wherever they like, blocking other genuine customers parking.
In your example, you've got someone standing outside the parking garage and collecting money in the course of depriving Blizzard of sales while, at the same time, depriving Blizzard of resources they build and maintain (parking spaces). While Bossland does charge for their software, said software does not allow access to Blizzard's services without paying (Blizzard) for them, nor does it deprive "legitimate" (defined by me as someone who pays for access, thereby including users of Bossland's software; if you have another definition, let's hear it) users of access.
Bossland is using private methods of access explicitly against the ToS to give game players access to more than blizzard gave those players rights or access to, and are charging these players for this access. Blizzard's regular customers are being impacted and receiving a worse experience, bossland is making a profit off blizzard's intellectual property.
So my first point stands.
Damn straight blizzard will march out front, tell them to take off, and that if they stop breaking the lock on the private entrance and bringing cars in illegally, oh, and all that money you've been collecting, taking out of our pocket, we want restitution for that too.
They're breaking no locks, users of Bossland's software pay Blizzard for access and connect to Blizzard's servers using Blizzard's software, the same way everyone else does. They're not taking money out of Blizzard's pockets, as Blizzard is still getting paid. So there's no restitution to be had, no matter how bad Blizzard (and you) may want there to be.
They hacked into blizzard's code, and use a modified version of it to generate an overlay showing the intentionally hidden information. So yes, they've broken into overwatch. Their customers of course pay for their original copy of the game, and then pay bossland to hack it for them. Their resulting versions ruin the game for legal customers, which means that prospective legal customers will be less likely to purchase it. So yes, they have made money off blizzard's back that has resulted in blizzard losing money, the basic premise that restitution addresses.
Still failing to actually add anything pertinent to the discussion or make much sense here mate.... but lets keep going:
I sure do, but I'm sure you'll see it differently.
OK, I guess you didn't so I'll explain: I laid your argument out and pointed out all the gaping holes in it, which is what you attempted to do, but failed at. Unfortunately, I used logic and reasoning, and you're too busy playing semantics and pedantics.
As such, I used your line "See what I did there?" satirically.
As I was the one writing it, and thus doing it, I know what I did there, and why I did it (as will others with decent reading comprehension, which is a surprisingly large portion of /., yourself currently excluded)
Seems it sailed over your head however, despite claims to the contrary. That's OK though, I'm not replying to you specifically for you, though you're free to benefit from it (though you clearly prefer to argue, regardless of merit)
I pointed out gaping holes in your argument.
No, you really didn't.
You keep telling yourself that. I'm sure to you I haven't, but I'm perfectly fine with that, I'm not your mother :)
Now compare bossland to the 'unaffiliated company' profiting off blizzard's infrastructure.
You mean like a 3rd-party computer repair shop or car mechanic? Those businesses actually do deprive OEM repair facilities of sales, yet they're completely legal. Meanwhile, Bossland is actually not depriving Blizzard of anything... so...
OK, Blizzard is selling "a way to compete with other people" - It's designed the game and the rules. How is someone changing the rules for a small subset of the players for their own profit in any way related to any sort of "repair facility" Bossland isn't repairing anything, it's literally doing the opposite. it's literally "breaking the game".
Seriously, your arguments (where they're actually given) are getting worse and worse here.
See everyone else's point yet?
Funny you should ask, I was just in the middle of answering. No.
It's OK, you didn't need to answer, we all know where your head is, and what you can see from there :)
