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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 BlowCat · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Imagine KDE developers sueing GNOME developers because there are not enough beta testers for KDE. Or vise versa. Or Emacs vs VI.

    Better yet, imagine Microsoft sueing CNN because some users of MSIE read news at CNN instead of "the official" msn.com.

    What Blizzard has is not a point - it's a problem.

  2. Re:What price progress? by sharkey · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    So you're claiming that gene manipulation caused bentd to get written? Or that the lack of moles in Blizzard's legal department made them issue this Cease & Desist document?

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  3. Re:Wide pages are cool by BlowCat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Of those 97% MSIE users 99% read at +1 and above, so you lose. Those who enjoy reading inane posts and looking at really nasty pictures are mostly Linux users.