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EFF Continues Fight On Blizzard Vs. Bnetd Case

Posted by simoniker on from the still-dragging-on dept.

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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  1. Allow me to be the first say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...who fucking cares?

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  3. but, In Soviet Russia... by patrixmyth · · Score: -1, Troll

    dirt and potatoes play with you!

    (sorry, had to be said...)

    --
    "Don't you know you're going to shock the monkey?"- Peter Gabriel