While we admire Blizzard for taking the immediate steps to fix the cheating problem, we also wonder, will they ever really address the problems at hand?  Simply banning accounts doesn't seem to be the best method in the world of dealing with the cheating problem.  Although banning accounts is part of the solution it is not the entire thing.  One would think that Blizzard could some how figure out how to stop most cheating to begin with.  They don't seem to be too concerned about that part, they would rather just ban people.  The problem with that is, how do they know they are 100% correct?  Could some one who paid $49.95 for WC3 be falsely banned?  If their anti-cheat code is any indication of how bad their game code is, then they probably have ripped off a lot of money from innocent people.

According to Blizzard:

A number of additional accounts and CD keys have been tied to the use of a hack or cheat program while playing StarCraft or Warcraft III on Battle.net. In keeping with our aggressive stance against cheating, we have permanently closed 263,000 StarCraft accounts and 19,000 Warcraft III accounts. 8,000 of the Warcraft III CD keys used with the now-closed accounts have been banned from ladder play for one month, and 1,100 more have been banned from ladder play permanently. Repeat offenders risk having their CD keys disabled, which will result in the permanent removal of their copies of StarCraft or Warcraft III from Battle.net.

We will continue to monitor Battle.net for cheating and take action as needed. A false report filed by one player against another will not result in the actions described above.

As always, thank you for your continued support; with your help we have been able to keep Battle.net a fun and safe place to play Blizzard games.