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Warcraft 3 Expansion Beta Signups Announced
Clomer writes "Blizzard Entertainment has announced the signups for the beta testing of the upcoming expansion set to Warcraft 3 called The Frozen Throne. The beta will be online-only over battle.net, requires the full version of Warcraft 3, and is only open to US residents. Signups will be at battle.net starting on Friday, 14 February and will last a week."
It really is a shame they are not being very fast with updates expansions and releases of their product. Blizzard is one of the very few companies whos products i LOVE to buy.
Maybe. But only because they're responding to common sense and public opinion. The US government has been told by the high court that it is no longer bound by such technicalities such as the number of votes they receive in an election, so they are free to attack anyone they please in the name of money and power.
Sorry dude, this is not insightful. Reverse engineering is a sacred right. The DMCA is wrong, period, in all its uses. The bnetd folks wrote their product from scratch. If the Blizzard people couldn't make a secure system on their own, fuck em. The law should not be used to prevent people from using products as they see fit, as long as they legally purchased the software. Bnetd was never a copyright circumvention device. Was it needed? It was certainly useful for those of us who wanted to play the beta before the official release. Did many of us still go out and buy the final release? Of course. And those of us who didn't would have warezed the final release before we bought it anyway. Bnetd didn't cost the Blizzard folks much UNTIL they turned it into a publicity nightmare for themselves. Fuck em, serves 'em right, and I hope they rot in hell.
Just what is the allure of obsessive resource management?