Maybe I missed it in the article but did anyone ever ask Blizzard if it was in fact a bot that sent the notice and not a real person? If it isn't legal to have bots do it I would imagine that a company the size of Blizzard would be smart enough to just hire a team of people to issue the takedowns. Given, they probably automate a lot of the process but it's not that hard to have someone look at webpages and eBay auctions all day checking a little box "bad", "good", "bad", "bad", "bad", "good", "good" ... lunch ... "bad", "good", "good".

Just because some journalist says "It's a bot!" doesn't make it a bot. I have worked many mundane jobs where the work I put out could easily be mistaken for that of a "bot".

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