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Legal Analysis Critical of Blizzard v Bnetd

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the how-to-look-at-it dept.

anewsome writes "As reported previously several times, Blizzard has sent a cease and desist letter to the ISP of bnetd (which develops an open source Battle.net emulator). Lawmeme.org (from the Yale Law School) has published a long piece with lots of background and legal analysis on the case. Conclusion: Blizzard has an uphill legal battle."

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  1. Re:Blizzard does have a point though... by geekoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    If Blizzard sends me a beta disk, I'll use there servers! ;) Nice to know that they pased me up, and chose some yahoo who doesn't even use there servers.
    Note to self: WC3 was NOT properly beta tested, wait 3 months after release to buy.

    this post is supposed to be funny.

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  2. What is it with the letter V? by Guppy06 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Between Vivendi and Jack Valenti, it seems that things with names that begin with the letter V are out to get us...