Comments on: BnetD looses in Blizzard case http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6118 p2pnet.net - reader powered Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:36:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6118#comment-19572 Reader's Write Mon, 05 Sep 2005 09:06:40 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6118#comment-19572 Just because it'd be pretty damned stupid of them to lose it, doesn't mean they haven't. Just like everyone knows they should back up their important files, but hardly anyone ever does. Just because it’d be pretty damned stupid of them to lose it, doesn’t mean they haven’t. Just like everyone knows they should back up their important files, but hardly anyone ever does.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6118#comment-19557 Reader's Write Sun, 04 Sep 2005 21:41:37 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6118#comment-19557 If they don't have their own source-code, then they're really very very bad business, I'm sure even M$ has still the sources for windows 1 & the 1st M$-DOS (you know, the one they bought $50000 *after* telling IBM they have it...). There's no way Blizzard doesn't have the Warcraft2 & Diablo source-codes anymore, that's just so plain stupid. If they don’t have their own source-code, then they’re really very very bad business, I’m sure even M$ has still the sources for windows 1 & the 1st M$-DOS (you know, the one they bought $50000 *after* telling IBM they have it…).
There’s no way Blizzard doesn’t have the Warcraft2 & Diablo source-codes anymore, that’s just so plain stupid.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6118#comment-19526 Reader's Write Sun, 04 Sep 2005 00:22:01 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6118#comment-19526 This ruling enforces nothing. The code is already out there, hell doing a simple google --> bnetd source, can take you to the source code if you are interested in it. Considering the people who create the server emulations are not usually apart of some organization, means it's simply not enforceable. There are many emulators other than bnetd, it's far to late for this ruling to have any real effect on the online communities. Now apart from all this, doesn't blizzard consider this to be bad publicity for them? i mean it makes them appear to be a bunch of monopolistic bureaucrats. This ruling enforces nothing. The code is already out there, hell doing a simple google –> bnetd source, can take you to the source code if you are interested in it.

Considering the people who create the server emulations are not usually apart of some organization, means it’s simply not enforceable.

There are many emulators other than bnetd, it’s far to late for this ruling to have any real effect on the online communities.

Now apart from all this, doesn’t blizzard consider this to be bad publicity for them? i mean it makes them appear to be a bunch of monopolistic bureaucrats.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6118#comment-19508 Reader's Write Sat, 03 Sep 2005 13:19:04 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6118#comment-19508 COOL!!!! Someone in the US dob Blizzard in to the relevant authorities for reverse engineering Warcraft 2 to create the Warcraft 2 Battlenet edition!!!! Battlenet wasn't created until after Warcraft 2, and i'll bet any money Blizzard didn't think to get permission from Blizzard to reverse engineer Warcraft 2 to enable it to work on Battlenet. You might think i'm insane reading that last paragraph, but hey, we're talking about US law here ;o) I'd so laugh if they got done for violating the DMCA by reverse engineering one of their OWN products! I mean does the ruling specifically say that the owners of the apps CAN do it? It's not very likely that they'd actually have had the source code to warcraft 2 sitting around to use to rebuild with battlenet support added to it. Maybe they did, but do they still have the original diablo code? Will they still have the diablo 2 code safely stored in another 10 years time? I doubt it very much. Companies are very bad at keeping things like source code, and now they're all forbidden to reverse engineer their own apps. Yay US law, wtg! COOL!!!!

Someone in the US dob Blizzard in to the relevant authorities for reverse engineering Warcraft 2 to create the Warcraft 2 Battlenet edition!!!!

Battlenet wasn’t created until after Warcraft 2, and i’ll bet any money Blizzard didn’t think to get permission from Blizzard to reverse engineer Warcraft 2 to enable it to work on Battlenet.

You might think i’m insane reading that last paragraph, but hey, we’re talking about US law here ;o) I’d so laugh if they got done for violating the DMCA by reverse engineering one of their OWN products! I mean does the ruling specifically say that the owners of the apps CAN do it?

It’s not very likely that they’d actually have had the source code to warcraft 2 sitting around to use to rebuild with battlenet support added to it. Maybe they did, but do they still have the original diablo code? Will they still have the diablo 2 code safely stored in another 10 years time? I doubt it very much. Companies are very bad at keeping things like source code, and now they’re all forbidden to reverse engineer their own apps. Yay US law, wtg!

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6118#comment-19489 Reader's Write Fri, 02 Sep 2005 23:42:08 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6118#comment-19489 Who's pockets do you think the US judiciary lives in? Who’s pockets do you think the US judiciary lives in?

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