Interesting, I’m surprised and ultimately pleased this made it through the court system.

I’m pleased too. To quote the emporer from Star Wars, Blizzard should

"wipe them out, all of them."

but dont you think they’re asking for quite a lot of money.

Not really.  If 100,000 Glider copies were sold, and Blizzard banned all 100,000 accounts that used the Glider… Blizzard lost $1.5 million… potentially, per month.

I wonder what the law would say if Glider was freeware.  Would they have just served cease and desist papers or could it have gone to court and a possible judgment like this?

sweet justice.

about time something is done against those bots, i hope they do the same in Diablo 2 (which most likely never will happen)

I have never used nor wanted to use a bot, but I can’t see this as a good thing. Using a precarious definition of copyright like this is only going to make it illegal to modify your own software to your needs/wants. Why should I have to put up with a retardedly-small stash? Why shouldn’t I be able to alter the graphics on my machine? Why should I be required to carry and risk damaging or losing my entire CD inventory (thousands) everywhere I go just to play a game once in a while, when I can ask someone to modify the game to remove such idiotic restrictions that don’t even affect real pirates?

Next thing you know, I won’t be allowed to run an inventory tracker to help me keep all my items and characters straight at the same time as the game is loaded into memory.