Last month, Friedman wrote on the WorldofWar.net--an unofficial WoW community site--that he had recently discovered that one of his WoW accounts had been permanently banned by the game's publisher, Blizzard Entertainment. According to an e-mail he received, the banning was punishment for "account sharing," a violation of the game's terms of service in which players give others their passwords and access to their accounts.
Friedman wrote that he had tried to get Blizzard to explain what happened, but had gotten no initial response. Weeks later, however, he was contacted by Blizzard, which told him it had reinstated his account and restored his lost items.