Chinese Justice

[Jarulf]

In US law, "intellectual property" law, or IP law is the section of law that deals with things that aren't tangible physical objects.  This includes things like data theft, copyright, trademark, patent, etc.  While copyright law specifically might not cover some of the things you've listed, other decisions that have been made in the IP space would.  While, for example, it would might difficult to prove copyright or trademark over a particular piece of database data, the data is considered to be real tangible property in the US.  Property is not limited to physical/tangible items.

I know what people generally mean by "intellectual property", although when you want to speak about specifics, it becomes horrible saying IP, since it covers things that is quite different according to the law. It turns things confusing since people mix it up and assume that something applying for copyright applies to trademarks and so on. Hence it is horrible to argue based on what "IP law" says since one really doesn't know what you mean.

By the way, I have never heared anyone lumpin in "data theft" into the IP thing, but I assume it just goes to show the confusion. By the way, what do you mean by THAT (data theft) and would you care to enlighten us what specific laws you deal with here since none of the laws typically lumped into IP seems to be appropriate.

As for what is property, in that case (you claim it to be considered tangible property), we would not be dealing with IP laws at all, it would be normal property laws, right???

Of course, since your only recourse if you feel your account is incorrectly pulled is to initiate a lawsuit (which will run tens of thousands of dollars) Blizz can pretty much do this with impunity short of a class action.
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Depends on were you live you know, the law system works very different in some countries....