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EFF Takes Bnetd Case
An anonymous reader sent in: "As reported three previous times, Blizzard is attempting to squash the Battle.net emulator and open source bnetd project. The EFF has taken the case. Read the press release. LawMeme also has a satiric fable."
There is a good Penny Arcade comix describing the situation (for thouse of you with short attention spa..)
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002
Yeah! Why espouse a viewpoint contrary to anyone else!
This is about pompous pronouncements from terminally
nerdy children who think that managing to bring up a
Linux system on a 486 makes them some kind of expert
on copyright matters.
Your anti-groupthink is doubleplusungood!
Just think Village People:
D-M-C-A!
Cease and desist it's the
D-M-C-A-a!
You could wind up in jail
Never get out on bail
Have to steal just to pay the lawyer...
Regardless does the EFF really think this is something worth fighting over?
No dude, this is nothing to worry about. Fair Use and all that rot is just a bunch of theoretical bunk the pointy-headed academics use to keep us all confused. Just do whatever Blizzard and Disney want, and you'll be fine.
And when American Standard gets around to joining the game, you can ask them for permission to shit, and it'll be all good.
Edith Keeler Must Die
Any suggestions for additional entries?
Anyone who posts lists of people who should have been in the WTC.
Edith Keeler Must Die