WoW/Blizzard helps bust drug war fugitive

[hdiandrew]

http://gamepolitics.com/2010/01/04/wow-playing-fugitive-busted-help-blizzard

Big change from the days when Blizzard dedicated Warcraft to California's proposition legalizing medical marijuana. No, they were not at all required to release their user's account information to the government, but they did so anyway.

Comments

[mystrys.livejournal.com]

They are a big time corporation now with an image to protect - I am sure that some corporate moron somewhere was involved in the decision.

[hdiandrew.livejournal.com]

lol their corp image is Guitar Hero, COD4 and stoners playing WoW ...

[mastertwisted.livejournal.com]

Pretty shitty thing to do. Don'tcha just love these corporations that cave to the Man?

[hdiandrew.livejournal.com]

lol I just need to remember that if I need personal info on any WoW players, I just have to mock up a subpoena ...

[noctifer.livejournal.com]

wow.. that is utterly terrifying. I thought for a minute that maybe the guy was trying to distribute through wow, at which point I would understand a kid-heavy game might go along with the cops, but just because he played it? -shiver-