Slashdot Games Blizzard Sued By South Carolina Inmate

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Slashdot Games Blizzard Sued By South Carolina Inmate
By News Bot - 11-05-2008 02:23 PM
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Benjamin Duranske writes "Jonathan Lee Riches, an inmate in South Carolina famous for filing long, handwritten, rambling screeds against celebrities, politicians, and even buildings, has filed a third-party motion in Federal Court in Arizona in the MDY v. Blizzard botting case claiming that Blizzard's World of Warcraft 'caused Riches mind to live in a virtual universe, where Riches explored the landscape committing identity theft and fighting cybermonster rival hacker gangs. Riches was addicted to video games and lost touch with reality because of defendants. This caused Riches to commit fraud to buy defendants video games. Riches chose World of Warcraft over working a legit job, Riches mind became a living video game.'"pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/05/1658215amp;from=rss"img src="http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/05/1658215"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/05/1658215amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/UQPTOmtx2_AoJOR9dR-JoHNJ6Ts/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/UQPTOmtx2_AoJOR9dR-JoHNJ6Ts/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~4/TXs3UCMpaes" height="1" width="1"/

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