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Blizzard/Vivendi 2, bnetd 0

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the shot-down-twice dept.

wiggles writes "It appears that the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with Blizzard/Vivendi (pdf link) in the ongoing bnetd case. According to the PDF of the opinion posted today, 'Appellants failed to establish a genuine issue of material fact as to the applicability of the interoperability exception [of the DMCA]. The district court properly granted summary judgement in favor of Blizzard and Vivendi on the operability exception. Summary judgement in favor of Blizzard and Vivendi is affirmed.' No word yet on the EFF's website as to what their next move will be."

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  1. About time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And as it should be, too. You have a right to make things cross-compatible with stuff like Samba, but there wasn't any legitimate use for bnetd besides "Bypassing Blizzard's CD-Key protection so that you could play your pirated Diablo 2 online".

  2. Re:My move is still by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Please. The people that say that crap are pirates and don't buy software anyway.

  3. frIst psot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    systems. The gay

  4. Re:My move is still by Curunir_wolf · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And my move is every time I see some ignorant fuck from Missouri, they only thing I'm going to "show" them will be my hairy ass. Fucktards.

    --
    "Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
    --- Jerry Garcia
  5. Re:My move is still by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "Fuck the Africans"

    --Gandhi (Paraphrased from his stint of bringing Indians into the South African government's good graces)

  6. Re:My move is still by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You should know better than to quote a gun nut on /.

      "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." -- Mahatma Gandhi