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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."
You fuckwit, go back to your limp pr0n. Some of us like to play private games with people we know, we call them "friends". See, we like to get together in a chat room and one of us will startup a bnetd server, then the rest of us join it and don't have to deal with shit heads like you while we zerg rush and hack our way through dungeons.
Shit, some of us even have legit copies, we just hate dealing with assclowns on Battlenet.
Okay, no one ever said entertainment software has to be free, nor should it. It has such a short life, that they can't make money on it if someone else is assisting the piracy efforts and allowing illegal players to play for free. The problem here is that people here assume all software should be free, unless they wrote it or need to make a living on it. I'm all for OSS, believe me, but you can't force EVERYONE to give away their time and effort.
Yes, OS's should be free and open, but this is really no different than someone pirating a movie and then doing public theater shows of it next door to the pay theater. It's fine to make your OWN software free, but taking someone elses and distributing it freely (or allowing and encouraging piracy which is exactly what bnetd did) is not appropriate. Since it is free to play on battle.net with a LEGAL copy, it's highly skeptical that it had another purpose, no matter the "disclaimer" that may be attached.
Microsoft Sucks, F/OSS Rocks. I get mod points now right?
"In Australia we have the right to reverse engineer for interoperability, regardless of whether or not we have entered into a contract that says we won't."
That's because Austrailia is a lot different from Corporate America. Where do you think the term "Corporate America" came from?
Austrailia's government isn't in the coat pocket of the countries corporations [yet].
You don't even know what you're arguing Hamburgerman.
There is no market for non-Apple PPC machines, and haven't been any around since 1997. At the same time, I'm sure I could dig up a device with a x86 processor that can't run Windows. WTF is your point?
There is no restriction on viewing movies because there is no reason to; copyright applies to copying. WTF is your point?
Copyright doesn't grant users anything. It protect the owner of the copyright from infringing use.
Apple making their next OS run only on their own hardware has nothing to do with copyright. Trying to run it on a PC would not be a copyright infringement, it would be a licensing infringement.
A EULA is only "not recognized as a contract" by the same reality-free kooks who don't recognize the IRS.
And in any event, a EULA doesn't rescind your rights, because you don't have inalienable rights to use others' intellectual property to start with. You only gain the use rights you contract for by agreeing to purchase it, and the EULA spells out what limited rights you get.
Handing money for a box at CompUSA isn't a contract use agreement, the EULA is. The EULA doesn't magically jump in and limit your rights when you open the package, it spells out the buyer's agreement in using the software. If you can't live by the EULA, you take it back.
Where did you get the idea that copyright has anything to do with anything apart from the rights to copy?
Stop saying that word, because you obviously have no idea what it means.
When you license intellectual property, you do so at the mercy of the owner of the work. If you don't like their terms and conditions and price, you go elsewhere or write your own software.
If you are buying a hamburger, and decide that Burger King is selling their burgers for too much money, you don't have any inalienable rights to get a burger anyway, at whatever price you like. You'll have to try Wendys or make your own sandwich at home.
If you want to rent an apartment, and find they don't allow pets, you don't have inalienable rights to breed puppies there either. You find another place.
What is so hard to figure out? What are you, seven?