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Blizzard Rains on Bnetd Project

Posted by michael on from the yellow-rain dept.

Sir Homer writes: "Blizzard Entertainment has shut down the bnetd project using the DMCA, as declared in their site. The bnetd project is a battle.net server emulator licenced under the GNU/GPL originally for Linux and also works on most Unix variants. Project details can be found on this freshmeat.net page." As I understood it, bnetd was a complete re-implementation of battle.net, so it isn't clear what copyright violation Blizzard alleges occurred. Note to bnetd: under the DMCA, you can file a counter-notice with the hosting provider asserting that Blizzard was wrong.

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  1. Re:Overseas! by Kryptolus · · Score: 4, Funny

    And when the server flies to US for some reason ... the FBI aressts it ...

    hmm ...

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  2. Yawn. by base3 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Another day, another dollar. File, Save as, \\xr4ti\downloads\suppressed, OK

    . . .

    Directory of \\charon\downloads\suppressed

    02/20/2002 09:25 PM <DIR> .
    02/20/2002 09:25 PM <DIR> ..
    07/27/2001 01:34 PM 746,194 aebpr22.zip
    01/12/2002 10:57 AM <DIR> ASPI Me (backdate to 1998)
    02/20/2002 09:18 PM <DIR> Blizzard Jackboots
    09/22/2001 04:05 PM <DIR> Broadcast 2000
    01/30/2002 04:22 PM <DIR> eBookReader (old verson)
    06/07/2001 06:50 PM <DIR> PanoTools
    08/25/2001 12:06 PM <DIR> SKIE
    06/08/2001 07:24 PM <DIR> TiVo MPEG
    12/31/2001 08:00 AM <DIR> WMA crack (v7)
    12/31/2001 08:06 AM <DIR> Xolox
    08/25/2001 12:06 PM <DIR> xp-stuff
    1 File(s) 746,194 bytes
    12 Dir(s) 10,921,562,112 bytes free

    Think these intellectual property assmonkeys see a pattern yet? If you want the widest distribution of a file, just try to stamp it out.

    * machine names changed to protect the guilty

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  3. Boycott!!!! Slashdiddlies!!! Bwahhaaahaaaahaaa!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It you really think the average Slashdiddly will be able to tear himself away from his DVD collection and the new Warcraft 3 (tm) when it arrives then I think you have got something coming!

    Lets face it; boycott? As a cohesive group, /.'ers haven't got a chance.

    Prove me wrong.