Napster Founder Crafting WoW Community

Posted by Zonk on Saturday December 2, 2006 @05:32AM from the soon-they-will-be-trading-loot-illegally dept.

Gamespot reports on Napster founder Shawn Fanning's newest project: an online community for MMOG players called Rupture. He's initially, sensibly, targeting World of Warcraft players with what's being described as 'MySpace for Azeroth'. From the article: "The [service] will pull data directly from WOW and publish stats and information on a personalized page. Gamers will also be able to instant message while playing, as well as track the progress of their guilds and organize playing time with their online buddies. Rupture will rely on ads for revenue and also focus on exchanging info on gamers' real lives, should they have one. WOW is the first game on the plate for Rupture, but no other titles have yet been mentioned. "

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WoW players have a life? by Kuvter · 2006-12-02 11:57 · Score: 0, Flamebait

But WoW players don't have a life haven't you seen South Park's WoW episode.

From the episode: He's been playing World of Warcraft for so long he must have no life. "How do you kill that which has no life?"

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"To be is to do." --Socrates
"To do is to be." -- Aristotle
"Do-Be-Do-Be-Do..." --Sinatra
Re:Jennings is a Criminal by tepples · 2006-12-02 15:13 · Score: 0, Flamebait

So did Megadeth every time they released an album that fans chose instead of Metallica's output

So why didn't Metallica patent methods of composing music or methods of performing music? A band establishing a new sound could probably patent it nowadays, given that USPTO is known to grant patents on data processing algorithms, business models, and even story plots.