Blizzard lets you get the client for free, but their anti-piracy measures on it are that you need an account on battle.net to play (i.e. Blizzard can guarantee that you bought the game because you entered the CD key to activate it).
Don't assume that just because the client is freely downloadable, that you can use it however you like. The best analogy I can think of is a shareware application - you can download it free, often the shareware and full versions are the same binary. But reverse engineering it to accept any old CD-key or using a keygen is illegal. Blizzard's stance would be that using ScapeGaming servers (or bnetd) would be akin to using a keygen.
Just don't pick "Free upgrade to EV" unless you're a company, with a looooooooot of time on your hands to handle the documentation. I'll let you chew over exactly what's weird about that offer.
Yes it is trademark infringement, as you cannot use their trademark in the same field (online gaming) without a license. Fan sites are not in the same field. Besides, most games (including this one) have a page on their website with official fan site kits, which also include a license to use their trademark anyway (subject to restrictions).
Corporations aren't citizens, but they are merely a collective of citizens, hence a "corporate interest" (which is really the interests of the collective) is technically a citizens interest.
Either they pirate it or they don't have it. There is no "they buy it" option.
So who cares 5 people got free entertainment from your game for every person who bought it? There's no way you are convincing them to buy it - you could try to slap magic DRM on it and reduce the piracy to 0. But then you still have the same number of sales, sure those pirates don't get it for free now but that doesn't help you any anyway.
Wow, check out the double standard on this. I bet you're one of the first to say "not every download is a lost sale" when the music industry whips out their dodgy figures, and yet you seem to believe it's A-OK to say, pretty much, that every sale is a lost pirate. What's good for the goose is good for the gander and all that. (ergo, your argument is invalid).
The only place we lead is in the price: We have the most expensive broadband. We only represent 5% of the world population, that's it. I would imagine that *most* software sells more outside the US than inside, and most piracy is likely in places like China, like I said, that make less than $20 per day.
Huh. Americans pay virtually nothing for broadband compared to almost everywhere else. Unless you're paying $150USD for 12Mb/1Mb DSL with a 25GB cap, you have no leg to stand on.
I get paid regardless, for my actual hours spent doing what I do!
Then you aren't the person any of this discussion is about, and therefore your statement is not relevant from that angle of the discussion.
Those that develop products without the umbrella of a corporation paying them per hour are affected by every person that pirates the product (provided that pirate was also a sales opportunity - and don't bullshit by saying all pirates will not buy your product because that's not true. In fact I'd deign to say that most pirates would actually buy the product if offered a reasonable opportunity to do so).
That 'pledge' is utterly worthless. If they go into bankrupty protection, they are legally obligated not to diminish the value of their holdings to their creditors. Unlocking all the DRM would diminish the value of their holdings.
If they get bought out, it will be up to the new owners to decide what to do. Valve will have no say in the matter.
And for bonus points, most of the games protected by Steamworks are not made by Valve - they couldn't remove the DRM even if they wanted to.
Contrary to popular belief, developers don't want that kind of exposure. "You can get the game from Pirate Bay" is not "free advertisement". Stop using that bullshit excuse.
Yeah, I agree with this. Recaptcha is one of the easiest out there.
Admittedly though, I have around about 3% success rate with vBulletin captchas. Hear that forum owners? I'm not joining your forum because I can't read your captcha!
Said white hat probably didn't have a signed contract with the owner of said corporate infrastructure. In this case, said faceless corporation did have a contract with said moron.
It's called TR-069 (ACS). Many routers/modems have it. No, it doesn't use keypair authentication (uses a plain password, but not the same as your HTTP management password). Yes, they probably firewall it off so that only their management machines can reach it.
The Wikipedia page does not list the port, I think because ACS uses different ports for each setup or something. It has that number against something else.
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I'd think AJAX is significant - and that came out of Exchange and IE.
Well, at least we can give them credit for AJAX, which in it's present form was invented by the Microsoft Exchange team just for Outlook Web Access.
Ah, but you could download it for free by opening your web browser and... nowait...
And don't forget Internet Explorer for Unix. I know, I know, you were trying to...
Blizzard lets you get the client for free, but their anti-piracy measures on it are that you need an account on battle.net to play (i.e. Blizzard can guarantee that you bought the game because you entered the CD key to activate it).
Don't assume that just because the client is freely downloadable, that you can use it however you like. The best analogy I can think of is a shareware application - you can download it free, often the shareware and full versions are the same binary. But reverse engineering it to accept any old CD-key or using a keygen is illegal. Blizzard's stance would be that using ScapeGaming servers (or bnetd) would be akin to using a keygen.
I suppose it was unfair to expect you to remember all of Comodo's 10,000 brand names.
http://www.positivessl.com/
"From $5.00/ yr"
Just don't pick "Free upgrade to EV" unless you're a company, with a looooooooot of time on your hands to handle the documentation. I'll let you chew over exactly what's weird about that offer.
Yes it is trademark infringement, as you cannot use their trademark in the same field (online gaming) without a license. Fan sites are not in the same field. Besides, most games (including this one) have a page on their website with official fan site kits, which also include a license to use their trademark anyway (subject to restrictions).
They allowed users to circumvent the anti-piracy functionality, by not requiring a battle.net account to log in.
GeoTrust is Verisign (now Symantec). GTE is Verizon
Yes they do. Their CA is entitled "ComTrust".
I see what you're getting at, but there have to be better solutions.
The current model discourages SSL adoption, because it adds a significant cost ($70/CN/yr or so).
If by "significant", you mean US$5 (which is what Comodo charges) per year, sure.
Isn't the public key more than sufficient to decrypt all the data?
Corporations aren't citizens, but they are merely a collective of citizens, hence a "corporate interest" (which is really the interests of the collective) is technically a citizens interest.
You are missing the point. The only video that is not broken is one that no one watches.
You forgot the one that no one wants.
Technical side of single player is top notch, but they botched the story and raped the lore.
We pretty much expected that would happen. There's only one thing to say to it (and you might recall when it was first said): lorelol.
Either they pirate it or they don't have it. There is no "they buy it" option.
So who cares 5 people got free entertainment from your game for every person who bought it? There's no way you are convincing them to buy it - you could try to slap magic DRM on it and reduce the piracy to 0. But then you still have the same number of sales, sure those pirates don't get it for free now but that doesn't help you any anyway.
Wow, check out the double standard on this. I bet you're one of the first to say "not every download is a lost sale" when the music industry whips out their dodgy figures, and yet you seem to believe it's A-OK to say, pretty much, that every sale is a lost pirate. What's good for the goose is good for the gander and all that. (ergo, your argument is invalid).
The only place we lead is in the price: We have the most expensive broadband. We only represent 5% of the world population, that's it. I would imagine that *most* software sells more outside the US than inside, and most piracy is likely in places like China, like I said, that make less than $20 per day.
Huh. Americans pay virtually nothing for broadband compared to almost everywhere else. Unless you're paying $150USD for 12Mb/1Mb DSL with a 25GB cap, you have no leg to stand on.
I get paid regardless, for my actual hours spent doing what I do!
Then you aren't the person any of this discussion is about, and therefore your statement is not relevant from that angle of the discussion.
Those that develop products without the umbrella of a corporation paying them per hour are affected by every person that pirates the product (provided that pirate was also a sales opportunity - and don't bullshit by saying all pirates will not buy your product because that's not true. In fact I'd deign to say that most pirates would actually buy the product if offered a reasonable opportunity to do so).
That 'pledge' is utterly worthless. If they go into bankrupty protection, they are legally obligated not to diminish the value of their holdings to their creditors. Unlocking all the DRM would diminish the value of their holdings.
If they get bought out, it will be up to the new owners to decide what to do. Valve will have no say in the matter.
And for bonus points, most of the games protected by Steamworks are not made by Valve - they couldn't remove the DRM even if they wanted to.
Contrary to popular belief, developers don't want that kind of exposure. "You can get the game from Pirate Bay" is not "free advertisement". Stop using that bullshit excuse.
Ouch. Tack credit card processing (or PayPal) fees onto that, and they made a net loss from those sales.
Yeah, I agree with this. Recaptcha is one of the easiest out there.
Admittedly though, I have around about 3% success rate with vBulletin captchas. Hear that forum owners? I'm not joining your forum because I can't read your captcha!
Said white hat probably didn't have a signed contract with the owner of said corporate infrastructure. In this case, said faceless corporation did have a contract with said moron.
It's called TR-069 (ACS). Many routers/modems have it. No, it doesn't use keypair authentication (uses a plain password, but not the same as your HTTP management password). Yes, they probably firewall it off so that only their management machines can reach it.
The Wikipedia page does not list the port, I think because ACS uses different ports for each setup or something. It has that number against something else.