Blizzard Prepares to Ban Starcraft 2 Cheaters UPDATED WITH SECOND BAN

Blizzard is threatening to ban Starcraft 2 cheaters (Sept. 2010).
http://www.1up.com/news/blizzard-ban-starcraft-2-cheaters

UPDATE:  More banning of cheaters (Dec. 2010).
http://kotaku.com/5702863/starcraft-2-developers-initiate-ban-rush

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Blizzard Bans WOW and Diablo Players UPDATED

Kotaku alerted me to this posting on the Blizzard forums about the company's recent banning of 320,000 players for "violating the terms of use."
http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=24401612571&sid=3000

More details from 1up.com
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3178923

UPDATE: Discussion about the cheating and the effect Blizzard's not doing anything about hacks for a long time had is in the middle of this article.
http://www.wow.com/2010/04/24/1-local-chariots-and-cheats/

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Contracts and Banning Players (A Legal Look)

The WOW Insider legal column takes a look at the issues around banning players, mostly the contract between Blizzard and WOW players.
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/15/the-lawbringer--contracts-and-player-bans/

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The Lich King First Kill Controversy

MMO Champion describes the first 25-man kill by Ensidia and their 72 hour ban for using "exploits."  The Hunter's Mark in the second link below posts Blizzard's ban message and Ensidia's response.
http://www.mmo-champion.com/news-2/ensidia-suspended-for-72-hours/

http://www.thehuntersmark.net/2010/02/04/ensidia-banned-for-lich-king-exploit-kill/

Blessing of Kings summarizes what happened in the fight, step by step, and shows how this is exploiting a bug, which Blizzard absolutely hates.
http://blessingofkings.blogspot.com/2010/02/ensidiagate.html

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