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Microsoft Corporation Square Enix Inc Activision Blizzard Inc. Konami Digital Entertainment ... Found inside – Page 1Donald Driscoll , a lawyer in Albany , California , is suing the maker of the Starcraft computer game , claiming that the software ... Driscoll alleges that Blizzard Entertainment of Irvine , California , put a " trap door " in their software . " It takes a ... Found inside – Page 7442010 ) ( detailing the lawsuit of Blizzard Entertainment against MDY Industries , and not the thousands of users of the developer's program ) . 314 . See Jeremy Reimer , Blizzard Bans 30,000 World of Warcraft Accounts , ARS TECHNICA ... Found inside – Page 457Plaintiff Antonio Hernandez alleges Hong Kong - based Internet Gaming Entertainment Ltd. hires cheap Third World labor to spend up to 14 hours a day playing Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft , performing tasks or making goods to ... 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