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."

Comments

I gotta agree with Blizzard...

[DragonPup]

Battle.net is their own network that they created. I think it's reasonable that they want people to log on with only Blizzard authorized clients and not to use a emulator for that. Just my opinion on the matter...

-Henry

Blizzard Entertainment sadly mislead?

[pinkUZI]

I wonder what Blizzard hopes to achieve by taking this route. It would seem to me that it has been proven that being a nazi doesn't improve sales. Why don't they look to companies like ID software and the example they have set with Quake. Creators of one of the most successful multiplayer games to date, ID Software has maintained a much more loose policy for multiplayer game play. {plus they have a policy of releasing every game under linux!}