EFF Continues Fight On Blizzard Vs. Bnetd Case

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a Boing Boing post discussing the continuing conflict between Blizzard Software and the makers of bnetd, linking to the latest EFF-authored court documents (PDF) in a continuing legal battle over "the free bnetd software that emulates Blizzard's free Battle.net gaming service." Boing Boing argues of the EFF's new documents: "The prose here positively sings, and is as good a treatise on fair-use reverse engineering as you could hope to read", going on to quote their argument that "...the dissimilarity between the 'BATTLE.NET' and 'bnetd project' marks alone warrants summary judgment for the Defendants on Blizzard's Count III. Also weighing heavily in Defendants' favor is the fact that Blizzard has still failed to come forward with any admissible evidence of actual customer confusion." We've previously covered this long-running legal battle on several occasions. In related news, other readers point out a $1.2 million bequest to the EFF from the estate of Leonard Zubkoff "to establish the EFF Endowment Fund for Digital Civil Liberties."

Comments

blizzard online??

[Mantorp]

I'm confused, don't they sell those at DQ? Let's sue.

*sigh*

[ohchaos]

I'd just managed to convince myself Blizzard was no longer evil, and that I could look forward to purchasing W.o.W. and now slashdot's gone and reminded me that they're still evil.......

Re:*sigh*

[kfg]

You think you've got it bad?

I'm an AoE addict.

KFG

If I were in charge...

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd polymorph Blizzard

"Don't make me turn you into a mindless sheep!"

ATTENTION BLIZZARD

[asscroft]

For the right price....

I'll pretend to be a customer who was confused and sell out free software and legitimate uses of reverse engineering and for that matter all practical applications of intelligence and education. Why the fuck not. For the right price...

private message me for details.

Re:Emulation can be the only option

[abertoll]

invaluable to many users who would otherwise have no means of taking advantage of the matchmaking services offered by Blizzard's official servers.

... looking for love in all the wrong places

When I was younger, I was into tabletop RPGs

[Anonymous Coward]

I find it hilarious that Blizzard can complain about copyright infringement when their entire IP is stolen from Dungeons and Dragons and Games Workshop

Re:The solution is there but sadly unpopular

[LittleBigLui]

Soviet Union produced Tetris, the most played game yet made

No no, you've got it all backwards!