Blizzard vs. BnetD Decision - Blue's News Comments

Blizzard vs. BnetD Decision
[Oct 03, 2004, 05:32 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (thanks Mike Martinez and Slashdot) has word on a decision in the DMCA lawsuit between Blizzard and the makers of the BnetD alternative to the Battle.Net service. According to the interpretation of this: "A clickthrough EULA isn't unconscionable (and thus enforceable); Fair Use rights can be waived in a EULA; First Sale rights (!) can be waived in a EULA; The DMCA's interoperability provisions are not a defense." Both the /. article and the EFF article have further opinions on what this means going forward, and word is the EFF is planning an appeal.

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Oct 3, 2004, 18:45

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I don't know Oct 3, 2004, 18:45

Oct 3, 2004, 18:45

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Maybe its just me but I'm used to Q3A style (and many other FPS) auth / private servers. I don't get why they can't do something like id does where the client auths with a Blizzard master server and then after that who the hell cares what server they play on, the copy is legit (or at least the chance of it being legit is as good as current method). In some games the client displays the type of server the entire game (ie Leased, Official, 3rd party) this way there's no confusion and the company can say, if you're having issues on those unsupported servers come to ours where we can make everything peachy. (yeah, right)