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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."
EFF would be setting a good president if they win this one, helping similar projects
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It's true, Communism is great for games. Let's do a comparison.
Soviet Union produced Tetris, the most played game yet made
Post Communist Russia produced Big Rigs, hailed by Gamespot as the worst game ever
The most famous American designer produced Daikatana
The most famous British designer produced Black and White
Clearly, communism holds the key to great game design
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BnetD
Each and every day
I logged on and played
Battle.net
Each and every day
It lagged on and I played
zenmonkeycat - Anyone want to help me kill Baal?
l0ser - u hav gold
zenmonkeycat - Do I have gold?
l0ser - hey give me sum gold
zenmonkeycat - I really don't have any to spare.
l0ser - hey fagit giv eme gold
zenmonkeycat - Seriously, I don't have enough as it is.
l0ser - i need wps
l0ser - jail
l0ser - give wp
zenmonkeycat - Seriously, you don't need it.
l0ser - give wp fagit!!! [spammed four times in a row dowm my screen]
zenmonkeycat - No. I'm not going to give you any waypoints if you're going to be a dick about it.
l0ser - give gold!!!!
zenmonkeycat - Shut up, you're not getting any of my gold.
l0ser has gone hostile on zenmonkeycat
[five minute wait with me in town the whole time]
l0ser - give me wps
[ten minutes pass and I'm still hanging out in town]
l0ser has left the game
zenmonkeycat - Heh.
*****
Dear Mary,
I yearn for you tragically,
A.T. Tappman, Chaplain, U.S. Army.