Blizzard Rains on Bnetd Project

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.

Comments

what's the problem?

[syrinx]

Honestly... people are playing pirated copies of the War3 beta which they couldn't do without bnetd. This is a fact. Bnetd also allows people to play pirated D2 or Starcraft or whatever online as well. They use CD keys for a reason, so people have to buy their games if they want to play on their server. Makes sense to me. And it works too. Sure, there are key generators for the older games, but those aren't very reliable from what I've heard.

So you can't play your w4r3z anymore. Don't bitch at Blizzard about it, go buy the damn game.

(I fully expect a -1 troll for this, but so it goes.)

Re:Dont like it? DO SOMETHING!

[indiigo]

uhhhh so you cancelled your account with your cable provider and dialed in via your backup ISP to let us know this? Gee... we feel honored you went through the effort but the rest of us will keep our net connections--however related they may be to a life-critical online game that rules the world.