Accounts banned for Real-World Trading

[Occhidiangela]

To my way of thinking, Blizzard makes it easier to enforce by keeping the information on the servers. 

For me, whatever is installed on my machine I have the rights to use however I would like for my own personal entertainment.  But, since most of the information and functionality is installed on Blizzard's machines, they own all the characters and all the items they possess.  We merely pay for a service which allows us to play in their sand box.
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FWIW

Yes, we get to play on their golf course by paying the greens fees. We had to buy (or rent) the clubs at their course. What they have no rights to is any betting revenues any of us accrue on the course. That argument and analogy makes sense, as it did in other games. The transfer of goods via trading continues to be valid, and what people are doing is trading. The "off the golf course" money tie in is more like sandbagging one's handicap at other course by missing a lot of shots. Hard to prove, or control.

I think the market for items issue is lame, but that is a matter of taste. I also think their best line of attack is on copyright infringement and failure to get a royalty, per a musician, for a for profit use of their copyrighted material. Not being an attorney, I may be completely wrong about that.

Occhi