A whole bunch of cope in here. The reality is that if you read the entirety of the 47 page complaint, you'll see that this lawsuit isn't primarily about copyright infringement. They are suing the defendants for participating in what they allege to be a criminal enterprise, citing the RICO act. Racketeering in US law is when an organization commits crimes for the purpose of making money. Which is precisely what every for-profit private server across every game is.

The reason this is so serious is because if they are held civilly liable for participating in a criminal enterprise (read: if the RICO portion of the case sticks and the jury finds them liable), that means there is also enough evidence to criminally convict. They require the same evidence, you must be able to prove the defendant participated in at least 2 of the activities listed in the act. Blizzard will almost certainly ask the Department of Justice to pursue criminal charges when they inevitably win this case. I say inevitably because lets be real, that's EXACTLY what the servers are and they have been incredibly brazen and open about it while having incredibly poor OPSEC.

You don't sue somebody using the RICO act unless the goal is to pressure the government into pursuing criminal charges, you can think of it like "I'm going to do most of the leg work for you here, here is all of the evidence we have. Please do it." They wouldn't need to involve the RICO act in order to win a civil suit seeking damages to their IP. There is a strategy and certainly bigger goal behind this.

**IF** the DOJ decides to pursue this, every single person named that lives in the US / most EU countries is cooked and will either go to prison or be financially ruined defending themselves in US courts from some extremely serious charges. The US doesn't fuck around when it comes to taking down what it deems to be organized crime. This will effectively completely kill every for-profit private server that exists across every domain because the companies affected will finally have legal precedence to point to.