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."

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kudos eff

[Anonymous Coward]

nt

Frist P0st

[Anonymous Coward]

j0

missing the point

[timmarhy]

EFF would be setting a good president if they win this one, helping similar projects

Boing Boing

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, this Boing Boing site looks WAY better than Slashdot. I'm setting my home page over there from now on. So long, suckers!

The solution is there but sadly unpopular

[Anonymous Coward]

If the USA went communist there would be no motive for Blizzard to do this since everybody who worked would get a fair salary. In a communist country something like bnet.d would be encouraged by everyone. In fact, communism would solve a lot of other problems too, like copyright, the hunger problem and the homeless problem. And before you go saying "communism failed in the USSR so it will fail here" no that was not real communism or even socialism; go read your Marx and find out for yourself.
I know this will just get modded down but that's exactly because communism is still widely viewed with contempt by western culture. Sigh.

Re:The solution is there but sadly unpopular

[Operating Thetan]

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

I like BnetD

[Anonymous Coward]

BnetD

Each and every day
I logged on and played

Battle.net

Each and every day
It lagged on and I played

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l0ser has left the game

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Hey

[Anonymous Coward]

Stop bitching and win some cases.

Re:Hey

[Anonymous Coward]

lol

I'm a Blackberry user

[Anonymous Coward]

Wombats are fun to play with.