Regret the Error

Because of editing errors, a video games column on Saturday about a legal dispute between Blizzard Entertainment, the creator of the World of Warcraft game, and the makers of a “bot” program called Glider that plays the game automatically, gave an incomplete quotation from a lawyer representing Glider’s creator, Michael Donnelly, and misattributed a statement about his approach to the case.
The lawyer, Lance C. Venable, was quoted as saying that he recognized that his client was “a pretty unsympathetic character.” The full quotation from Mr. Venable was: “My client is a pretty unsympathetic character. If you look at this case from the very narrow lens of it being a case of Blizzard versus a botter, I completely understand why people are sympathetic to Blizzard’s position.”
In addition, while Mr. Venable compared the case to hypothetical examples in other industries, it is the view of the writer of the column — not Mr. Venable — that as the case nears the appeals process, “it’s his job to make the most dire slippery-slope argument possible.”
And a picture caption, using information from Blizzard, misstated the name of the character from the game that was shown. It is the Lich King — not Frostmourne, the name of the sword he was shown carrying. Link

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