Blizzard sues South Korean MBC for protection of StarCraft copyright

October 28, South Korea's Gretech (Gom TV) and Blizzard on the "StarCraft" copyright infringement, the South Korean television MBC's MBC Plus Media, said that Blizzard, since 2007, the Korean Electric competition group that has not been agreed by Blizzard to host the league, and broadcast. Gom TV said the move was a deliberate violation of Blizzard's intellectual property rights, and in the past, whenever there had been some progress in the negotiations between the two sides, MBC would have put forward new conditions, which had repeatedly failed to reach a consensus and had delayed the whole thing; now it's the end of the story.　　And at the same time take account of the development of electric competition must be done. Chief operating officer of Blizzard Paul Sams as for Blizzard chief operating officer Paul Sams said that blizzard in the past three years to reach a consensus with the MBC, has done a lot of efforts, but did not see the results, for the end will eventually embark on legal channels, deeply regret. Blizzard is proud of the power of StarCraft and is aware that there are many fans who want to continue to see the stars in the Premier League, and that the player and the audience are important to blizzard, and that raising the level to the top of the game is the goal of future blizzard efforts. Just now to protect the intellectual property of Blizzard, have to sue, if MBC have the will to cooperate and sign the legal agreement, do not say "StarCraft", even "StarCraft 2" also can be broadcast, but all the premise still has to agree with the two sides and signed the agreement. (Digging the shell net)