It all sparks from here

3. KeSPA tried to sell tickets to offline audience for the final match of Ongamenet Starcraft taurnament.
4. Blizzard said, 'No, you can't do that.'

Btw, the $1 is just the way Blizzard to tick off KeSPA.

Actually this is quite a debatable issue. But then again, I somehow sides with Blizzard, despite how much I've hate their SC repackaged ver a.k.a SC2.

KeSPA should've negotiated with Blizzard at first before using somebody's copyrighted stuffs for their own benefits. I think no one wanted to have their own creation to be used for their own benefits, especially reaping the money from others.

I know some might be anti-Blizzard or "Oh what the heck, just a few thousand bucks, etc while Blizzard earn Millions or Trillions from the sales" thing but there's a reason why the word copyright exists.

Seriously, if it's not because of SNSD, I would've asked somebody to dropped a bomb at that country.