It's unfortunate that Blizzard is targeting BNETD. The problem that Blizzard is facing, is leaked copies of the Warcraft III beta being played all over the internet. Every beta tester got a unique CD-Key with their copy of the beta, to play on Battle.net you needed a unique key (i.e. one that was not being used).
The people with pirated copies of the beta want to play too, and since there's no single player in the beta, they need a Battle.net server to connect to. Now, Blizzard isn't about to let 10,000 illegal copies on to their server so the people running stolen copies turned to BNET.D.
At this time, through some strange coincidence, BNET.D attracted the attention of Blizzard. BNET.D said "Ok, game pirates suck, we won't develop Warcraft III compatiblity", got sued, and pulled their code. A handful of the contributers of BNET.D wanted to keep pursuing WC3 and formed Warforge.
Granted, there is a point or two in favor of developing a BNET.D server for WC3: [] Warcraft III doesn't allow for LAN play [] I forgot the second one They've been keeping up with Blizzards efforts to disallow use on non-battle.net servers very well (a patch is usually out in less than two days).
As for my opinion: People are going to find a way to play/use the latest and greatest software without paying for it. Period. The more attractive it is, the faster it will be cracked. Companies need to realize this and make software more available (public betas, lower prices, no prices (free)...) Even then, people will find ways to get products for free, but just like the music industry is starting to realize, people will take path of least resistance to the software they want.
A friend of mine worked at CompUSA for a couple of months. He said that people would frequently return certain brands of CDRWs because the discs would shatter in their drives. I forgot which brand exactly, but I think it was some of those cool looking black CDs.
A simple way around this is to add www.gator.com to your restricted sites list, then disable any rights that "restricted sites" may have. Not the most up-front way of doing things, but it works.
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So I'm at risk from the bacteria in my keyboard, but at least no one is planting a cherry bomb in it.
Why did you have to go and post a link to Groove Salad? It's hard enough to get an open server as it is.. now you've opened it up to all of /.!
As long as nobody finds out about my other favorite thing...
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dan
It's unfortunate that Blizzard is targeting BNETD. The problem that Blizzard is facing, is leaked copies of the Warcraft III beta being played all over the internet. Every beta tester got a unique CD-Key with their copy of the beta, to play on Battle.net you needed a unique key (i.e. one that was not being used).
The people with pirated copies of the beta want to play too, and since there's no single player in the beta, they need a Battle.net server to connect to. Now, Blizzard isn't about to let 10,000 illegal copies on to their server so the people running stolen copies turned to BNET.D.
At this time, through some strange coincidence, BNET.D attracted the attention of Blizzard. BNET.D said "Ok, game pirates suck, we won't develop Warcraft III compatiblity", got sued, and pulled their code. A handful of the contributers of BNET.D wanted to keep pursuing WC3 and formed Warforge.
Granted, there is a point or two in favor of developing a BNET.D server for WC3:
[] Warcraft III doesn't allow for LAN play
[] I forgot the second one
They've been keeping up with Blizzards efforts to disallow use on non-battle.net servers very well (a patch is usually out in less than two days).
As for my opinion: People are going to find a way to play/use the latest and greatest software without paying for it. Period. The more attractive it is, the faster it will be cracked. Companies need to realize this and make software more available (public betas, lower prices, no prices (free)...) Even then, people will find ways to get products for free, but just like the music industry is starting to realize, people will take path of least resistance to the software they want.
That's my $0.03
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dan
Fortunately I've been working on my telekenisis and can scroll and click links just by thinking about it.
A friend of mine worked at CompUSA for a couple of months. He said that people would frequently return certain brands of CDRWs because the discs would shatter in their drives. I forgot which brand exactly, but I think it was some of those cool looking black CDs.
A simple way around this is to add www.gator.com to your restricted sites list, then disable any rights that "restricted sites" may have. Not the most up-front way of doing things, but it works.
Imagine how much better pr0n will be!