I just went to watch a video on YouTube, and got a commercial for getting character boosted to 60.
A YouTube ad for wow level boost? Really? Did not think that was legal/allowed. Are Blizzard countering stuff like that? I.e. by tracking if suddenly the account is being accessed by IP in China or whatever, and suspending such accounts?
I know it doesn’t impact my experience very much, but I still feel like it’s wrong for Classic.
You’re not allowed to sell any in-game items for real life money. That includes gold and exp.
If you see the ad again, report it to YouTube, they do take down ads for illegal items.
There is a difference in what is illegal and what is against the rules of the game. Blizzard have no legal standing to go after third party sites that sell services. This is not breaking any laws. Players using the services can find themselves with a suspended account. Blizz can act against any in game characters/accounts involved in boosting for IRL money.
Wowhead and mmo-champion advertise lvl boost and ingame gold buying for vanilla (atleast for me).
Ofc its not legit, but prove it…
On the contrary, in many countries it is illegal to use someone else’s intellectual property for monetary profit, and it is always against Blizzard’s terms of service, hence a cease and desist order to the vendor and a ban to the user is the most common resolution.
Just do it. Cheat. Exploit. Blizzard doesn’t give a shiet.
No. They can’t shut down a third party site selling boosts etc for IRL money. It is not illegal. They can take action against any accounts in game involved by closing them or punishing those that buy gold/boosts/win trading etc for IRL money.
Yes they can protect their intellectual property like shutting down Nostalrius for using Blizzard’s game and running it themselves. Yes they can protect their intellectual property like that Chinese game they recently took to court that had all WoW characters in it.
There is a difference, even if you don’t understand it.
That’s what I thought. I do hope Blizzard make some effort into countering it by suspending accounts that appear to make use of such services.
Sure, it may be hard for them to prove it, but I imagine they don’t have to.
They will never reveal how they detect activities on accounts but I’m inclined to believe it must be much better now than it was back when the game was new 
Actually it isn’t as simple as you state it, generally the laws depend on the content creator (Us laws) and the laws of the offender (native laws) In principle the native laws have priority unless the creator asks for an expiditure. In Europe, every country has different piracy laws, and in some countries, the above mentioned You tube advertisment is illegal. In other countries it isn’t. So depending on which country you live in, the commercial should or shouldn’t be banned.
As mentioned, In the US the advertising of such a commercial isn’t illegal, only the customer useing its service. However in most european countries, the customer is protected and its the manufacturers responsibility to prevent third parties to provide service that directly violates criminal laws or terms of service violations.
Pure Blizzard standpoints and rules do not always apply concerning (international) crime. Your nostralius mention here however is not relevant cause thats a totally different type of infringement.
Nostalrius was an intellectual property issue. Third party service selling is not, the websites can not be closed down by Blizzard through any litigation. They have no legal right to close down the websites. I don’t know why you don’t want to accept this but I will leave you to your armchair expertise in law. Personally I believe the legal department of Blizzard.
The piracy laws are a complex matter, let me use an analogy wich hopefully shows why in some countries it is, and in others it isn’t illegal.
The analogy
The company has a rule that your allowed to drink alcohol on the job.
Worker a is 16 years old, he drinks alcohol, company rules say he can, laws in his country say he can’t hes commiting a “crime”
Worker b is 19 years old, currently in france, and drinks alcohol, company rules say he can, laws in his country say he can, no crime committed
Worker b moves to the US, still 19 years old, and drinks alcohol, company rules say he can, laws in the current country he’s in says he can’t he’s committing a “crime”
The same goes for any other rule / law, depending on the terms of service (Company rules) Actuall laws of the country of the company (US rules) and the laws of country the customer resides in all interact differently. Because of these differences in laws, per country independant of company rules, youtube should ban the add in some countries.
The 3rd party sites are not pirating anything. They are offering a service in a game. The service they offer breaks the terms of service for WoW. Blizz can’t shut the website down because it’s not illegal to have the website. The only action Blizz can take is against the characters/accounts involved in what goes against the rules of World of Warcraft/Blizzard. The people breaching the agreement with Blizzard are those doing the boosting and those buying the boosts. The website is not breaking any law.
You are talking about something wholly different. I am well aware that there are different laws in different countries. For example there isn’t a uniform age of consent for things around the world. That has absolutely nothing to do with a site selling a service in a game for IRL money. It is not illegal, no laws have been broken in any country. They breach the terms of a contract, does not mean it’s an illegal act, it means they broke the rules they agreed to adhere to and the contract is now void. Blizzard can terminate your account (perma ban).
It’s not illegal to have someone else level your character, you cannot go to jail or be arrested for it, it is however against the terms of use you agreed to when you made your account.
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