Blizzard Amends Complaint ... Again

Patersmith writes "From bnetd.org: Blizzard has amended their compliant again, adding what looks like possible DMCA claims, and adding Rob Crittenden, Wi Yang, and others as defendants. Originally it was thought that the courts would refuse to allow them to add anymore people to the lawsuit since Blizzard/Vivendi missed one of their serving deadlines, but the courts allowed them an exception to add additional defendants. Click here for the full scoop."

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This case could have a huge impact.

[Alsee]

IANAL

Defense's response.

If defendants win the 5th Affirmative Defence then Blizzard would lose it's relevant copyrights. Sounds like this would effectively put some of their stuff into the public domain.

It looks like winning on the 14th Affirmative Defence would strike down part of the DMCA as unconstitutional. This is also counterclaim 3.

Winning counterclaim 4 would declare EULA's worthless.

On the other hand if if Blizzard wins it is a major threat to reverse engineering, emulation, interoperability, and fair-use.

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