So now the arms race begins. Too bad, I just saw an ad that I WOULD have clicked on. But, now it is time for the junkbuster. They never learn.
Oooh, the imbecile-12-year-old-with-10$-allowance-wont-click -on-ads-threat. So common on Slashdot that I suspect these things are autoposted. But the number of variations of the theme that I have seen sadly lead me to believe they are genuine.
Writing a bnet clone is of course not piracy. Maybe some kind of IP rights infringement, but not likely. So, writing such a program is OK and should be legal. However, putting it to use on the net without any ability to check the validity of CD-keys is wrong, as it enables people who otherwise never could have played on Bnet since their copy of Diablo II or whatever is pirated, to play. And dont tell me that Blizzard should give out the list of valid CD-keys as some jarheads have suggested - that information belongs to them and noone else.
Shooting someone kills them (if you are a good shot). Working on battle.net-compatible server software (a) doesn't threaten anyone's life (surely you're not going to tell me $25 for Diablo II is worth equivalent to someone's life!), (b) *doesn't actually even cause software piracy
Well I suck at similes but I find the attitude "as long as it doesnt kill anyone, its OK!!" simpleminded. Piracy of this kind most definately hurts Blizzard, not as in someone getting killed, but as in economic damages. Which is wrong in my mind.
Maybe it is my English that makes it hard for you to understand the point I'm trying to get across. My point is: bnetd enables people to pirate a game and play it exactly as if they bought it. Since they can, they will according to the law of least resistance. Therefore, bnetd denies Blizzard the money it deserves for having written the three best games I have ever played online. I hope this makes it clearer, and again I apologize for my English.
The FREE MARKET gives you the right to deny Blizzard its revenues? I understand the error in thought that made you say this - you think that because there are two competing products, in this case BattleNet and bnetd, they both have the right to exist and compete with each other. Look - Blizzard created BattleNet, right? And uses it as the prime incentive for people to buy their games? In no way does anyone have the "right", except in their own minds, to create a product for any reason that enables people to pirate the games and still get the full benefits of them.
I'm sure Blizzard would gladly let *one* software pirate slip through the cracks if they could eliminate the annoyances to honest users. But how exactly would you go about doing that without, say, a million others getting through?
Also, what exactly gives you the right to endanger Blizzards revenues just because you are a hobbyist? I'm not good at similes, but how about *shooting* someone because you are a hobbyist?:-)
I fail to see that wanting people to pay for a service is greed. I just do. The games Battle.net currently supports are either years old or in beta cycle. At this point the games have been posted to usenet, morpheus, or just plain copied so many times that there is little they can do about it. Starcraft and Warcraft II BattleNet Edition are still being sold in stores at a discount, which means that Blizzard is still making money of their "years old" software. To take away the BattleNet incentive would discourage people to buy their games, old and new. Plain and simple, yes.
No big deal here, move right along.. Of *course* Bnet-emulating servers will be used to play pirated copies of the game. Back when I used to play Diablo II, BattleNet was the one deciding factor that made me buy the original game.
I just became allergic to the complainers back when I was doing the IB. I mean of course I sat up late working on some assignments, but complaining about it would be silly since all assignments, including the EE, are given with ample time to complete them.
And those 100-200 pages? Mostly hardcopy of the code, right?
Also, you are up at 5 in the morning reading slashdot aren't you?
IB students have a tendency to make themselves martyrs of their work like no other group of students. It's just so embarrassing to see them "complain".
From your own post for example, "I've stayed up all night doing a 150-page dossier" . I don't believe you were actually supposed to do a 150 page dossier in one night. I believe you were given the assignment severeal months ago, as I once was assigned it.
When I see people complain that IB CompSci is hard, I laugh, because it is only hard if you arent organized. The people in the IB who complained a lot were always the ones running around like headless chickens and complaining how HARD everything was for them instead of actually working.
That sig is just the equivalent of having a booger hang out your nose and not knowing it I think. Just trying to do him a favor. So tap or I hyperextend your elbow, groundwork freak...
peace
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OK, so, dude, your.sig is quite offensive and stupid and you're not scaring anyone so change it even if you think thats a very cool thing to have tacked onto the end of your posts.
thanks
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"I hate the term "Digital Rights Management". It's a bland euphemism. The correct term should be "Digital Rights Denial." "
Very witty! You have created TEH FUNNAYZ!! Hooray!
So now the arms race begins. Too bad, I just saw an ad that I WOULD have clicked on. But, now it is time for the junkbuster. They never learn.
k -on-ads-threat. So common on Slashdot that I suspect these things are autoposted. But the number of variations of the theme that I have seen sadly lead me to believe they are genuine.
Oooh, the imbecile-12-year-old-with-10$-allowance-wont-clic
Writing a bnet clone is of course not piracy. Maybe some kind of IP rights infringement, but not likely. So, writing such a program is OK and should be legal. However, putting it to use on the net without any ability to check the validity of CD-keys is wrong, as it enables people who otherwise never could have played on Bnet since their copy of Diablo II or whatever is pirated, to play.
And dont tell me that Blizzard should give out the list of valid CD-keys as some jarheads have suggested - that information belongs to them and noone else.
Shooting someone kills them (if you are a good shot). Working on battle.net-compatible server software (a) doesn't threaten anyone's life (surely you're not going to tell me $25 for Diablo II is worth equivalent to someone's life!), (b) *doesn't actually even cause software piracy
Well I suck at similes but I find the attitude "as long as it doesnt kill anyone, its OK!!" simpleminded. Piracy of this kind most definately hurts Blizzard, not as in someone getting killed, but as in economic damages. Which is wrong in my mind.
Maybe it is my English that makes it hard for you to understand the point I'm trying to get across. My point is: bnetd enables people to pirate a game and play it exactly as if they bought it. Since they can, they will according to the law of least resistance. Therefore, bnetd denies Blizzard the money it deserves for having written the three best games I have ever played online. I hope this makes it clearer, and again I apologize for my English.
The FREE MARKET gives you the right to deny Blizzard its revenues? I understand the error in thought that made you say this - you think that because there are two competing products, in this case BattleNet and bnetd, they both have the right to exist and compete with each other.
Look - Blizzard created BattleNet, right? And uses it as the prime incentive for people to buy their games? In no way does anyone have the "right", except in their own minds, to create a product for any reason that enables people to pirate the games and still get the full benefits of them.
I'm sure Blizzard would gladly let *one* software pirate slip through the cracks if they could eliminate the annoyances to honest users. But how exactly would you go about doing that without, say, a million others getting through? :-)
Also, what exactly gives you the right to endanger Blizzards revenues just because you are a hobbyist? I'm not good at similes, but how about *shooting* someone because you are a hobbyist?
I fail to see that wanting people to pay for a service is greed. I just do.
The games Battle.net currently supports are either years old or in beta cycle. At this point the games have been posted to usenet, morpheus, or just plain copied so many times that there is little they can do about it.
Starcraft and Warcraft II BattleNet Edition are still being sold in stores at a discount, which means that Blizzard is still making money of their "years old" software. To take away the BattleNet incentive would discourage people to buy their games, old and new. Plain and simple, yes.
No big deal here, move right along .. Of *course* Bnet-emulating servers will be used to play pirated copies of the game. Back when I used to play Diablo II, BattleNet was the one deciding factor that made me buy the original game.
I just became allergic to the complainers back when I was doing the IB. I mean of course I sat up late working on some assignments, but complaining about it would be silly since all assignments, including the EE, are given with ample time to complete them.
And those 100-200 pages? Mostly hardcopy of the code, right?
Also, you are up at 5 in the morning reading slashdot aren't you?
IB students have a tendency to make themselves martyrs of their work like no other group of students. It's just so embarrassing to see them "complain". From your own post for example, "I've stayed up all night doing a 150-page dossier" . I don't believe you were actually supposed to do a 150 page dossier in one night. I believe you were given the assignment severeal months ago, as I once was assigned it.
When I see people complain that IB CompSci is hard, I laugh, because it is only hard if you arent organized. The people in the IB who complained a lot were always the ones running around like headless chickens and complaining how HARD everything was for them instead of actually working.
Look, I knew that, it's the "do not trifle with me." bit that bothers me. Nevermind the bollocks.
That sig is just the equivalent of having a booger hang out your nose and not knowing it I think. Just trying to do him a favor.
So tap or I hyperextend your elbow, groundwork freak...
peace
dont reply to this
OK, so, dude, your .sig is quite offensive and stupid and you're not scaring anyone so change it even if you think thats a very cool thing to have tacked onto the end of your posts.
thanks
just testing