This post isnt about a person's right to do whatever he wants with the material. Its not about a person being too lazy to read the terms of service agreement or enter an end user license agreement.
It is about a someone who was questionably found guilty of violating the rules, and Blizzard's premature and unfounded closure of his account.
We can suspect that the guy did in fact hack and sell stuff "illegally" in the game, but we cannot accuse him of anything.
We have to assume that in fact someone else logged into his account and used his WoW identity to commit acts that violated the ToS and the EULA.
The thing that really bugs me is that this cant be the first time this has ever happened, and there are problably hundreds of not thousands of people out there who have had their accounts hacked and misused, and Blizzard have closed those accounts.
For 15 dollars a month, I would think Blizzard could spend a few extra man hours to fully investigate the matter instead of going "oop, hacked account *click* ok, account closed no big loss for us!" Not to mention the whole business practice is somewhat unethical.
If the rest of the world worked the way Blizzard worked in this case, then car owners would be responsible for car thieves' actions, credit card companies would prosecute the card owner instead of the person who stole the owner's identity, and worse.
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