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Blizzard Sues Company Behind Overwatch Cheat Program

July 5, 2016 by Nick Monroe

Blizzard Entertainment goes to legal war with Bossland GMBH

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Blizzard Entertainment is suing Bossland GMBH of Germany for making various cheat programs to give players unfair advantages in the Overwatch game.  The accusations against Bossland include unfair competition, violating DMCA policies, as well as copyright infringement.

The most prominent of these cheat systems is known as “Watchover Tyrant”, which gives users the ability to see friendlies and hostiles names and health, along with a radar that shows them everyone who is dead or alive on the map. They sell it in session packages ranging from €12.95 a month to €199 “Legendary” tier for a year.

Bossland is also responsible for other cheats in Blizzard’s World of Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, and Diablo 3. The company has made note of these in their legal complaint, just to take care of everything at once here.

Speaking to TorrentFreak, Bossland CEO Zwetan Letschew has said that their offices haven’t recieved Blizzard’s complaint yet, and they find it odd that the company has finally decided to respond to them after “all these years,” stating that there were numerous legal battles going on in Germany already.

“Now Blizzard wants to try it in the US too. One could ask himself, why now and not back in 2011. Why did Rod Rigole  even bother to fly to Munich and drive with two other lawyers 380 km to Zwickau. Why not just sue us in the US five years ago?”

Bossland reportedly won a case in Germany with the Heroes of the Storm bot, making Blizzard pay legal costs and attorney fees for that case.

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