Why aint blizzard doing something about private WOW servers?

There are two possibilities:





1) It's not affecting profits.


2) They can't do anything.
Why aint blizzard doing something about private WOW servers?
They could use the law and such, but it would be very tedious.





It doesn't affect their profits too much (As people who play on the private servers probably wouldn't caugh up the money anyway) , and there are costs involved in various legal affairs and in the end I doubt it would be worth the trouble.
Why aint blizzard doing something about private WOW servers?
I do believe the previous poster is incorrect.





Back when blizzard was still updating the games such as starcraft, warcraft 3, diablo, etc. There was a server copycat called PvPGN which was an open source project for those who didnt wish to play on the battle.net restricted servers. As the PvPGN could be used to have higher rankings, and private ablities for clans. About 2 years after the PvPGN was undergoing steady devlopment they faced a law suit for copy cating the Battle.net system aslong with hashing methods of there special game cdkeys.





Thus the project was shut down.








Its only a matter of time before blizzard stands up for WoW.





But the main thing is that most people rather play the real thing, more players.
Reply:Unfortunately the bigger private servers are hosted outside the US, in countries that dont enforce US copyright laws. This makes it a little difficult to do anything. Its also why illegal DVD's come from the same areas.





You can report any private servers to Blizzard by sending an email with a link to the site at hacks@blizzard.com. You'll get a form letter back, but they do check into each and very email. This can also be used if you accounts for sale or hack sites. If its in the US you can bet the operator of it will get a nice letter from Blizzard.