{"id":25383,"date":"2017-03-18T01:30:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T01:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ps4pro.eu\/?p=25383"},"modified":"2017-03-19T18:43:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T18:43:46","slug":"blizzard-is-suing-a-game-cheat-company-for-huge-amount-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/2017\/03\/18\/blizzard-is-suing-a-game-cheat-company-for-huge-amount-of-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard Is Suing A Game Cheat Company To Huge Amount of Money!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Blizzard<\/strong><\/em> regularly attacks companies that are harming their business practices. Therefore, it&#8217;s no wonder that they already won against <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bossland-gmbh.com\/\">Bossland<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0in the German courts, but now it&#8217;s time for round two. This time the amount sued\u00a0is no less than 8.5 million dollars! What&#8217;s <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bossland-gmbh.com\/\">Bossland<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, you ask?<\/p>\n<p>On this site, you can buy cheats for money. Wallhacks, making things done without you getting involved in the game, so mostly stuff that is not allowed in games (no wonder Ubisoft kicked out 1500 players out of For Honor already for AFK farming) &#8211; <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bossland-gmbh.com\/\">Bossland<\/a><\/strong><\/em> focuses mostly on \u201eautomatization\u201d with its cheats. Unsurprisingly, the games that are involved are <em><strong>World of Warcraft<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Diablo III<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Overwatch<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em><strong>Heroes Of The Storm<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Blizzard<\/strong><\/em>d also sues <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bossland-gmbh.com\/\">Bossland<\/a><\/strong><\/em> for infringing its <em><strong>copyrights<\/strong><\/em>, as well as making players stop playing their games, which does have a negative effect on their financial status, too.<\/p>\n<p>Fair play is always important, so it&#8217;s not a surprise to see this lawsuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard regularly attacks companies that are harming their business practices. Therefore, it&#8217;s no wonder that they already won against Bossland\u00a0in the German courts, but now it&#8217;s time for round two. This time the amount sued\u00a0is no less than 8.5 million dollars! What&#8217;s Bossland, you ask? On this site, you can buy cheats for money. Wallhacks, making things done without you getting involved in the game, so mostly stuff that is not allowed in games (no wonder Ubisoft kicked out 1500 players out of For Honor already for AFK farming) &#8211; Bossland focuses mostly on \u201eautomatization\u201d with its cheats. Unsurprisingly, the games that are involved are World of Warcraft, Diablo III, Overwatch\u00a0and\u00a0Heroes Of The Storm. Blizzardd also sues Bossland for infringing its copyrights, as well as&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/2017\/03\/18\/blizzard-is-suing-a-game-cheat-company-for-huge-amount-of-money\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[26,5659,2234,4942,1502,245],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Blizzard Is Suing A Game Cheat Company To Huge Amount of Money! - theGeek.games<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"theGeek.games\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/2017\/03\/18\/blizzard-is-suing-a-game-cheat-company-for-huge-amount-of-money\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blizzard Is Suing A Game Cheat Company To Huge Amount of Money! 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