Bnetd Development Halted
February 24th, 2002 by michaelBetter late than never, most of you have probably read about the bnetd debacle that went down this past week. Lots of well-reasoned (*cough*) and impassioned discussion occurred on Slashdot in this original aritcle and the subsequent follow-up.
As far as I can tell, the salient bits are in this post, explaining why Blizzard‘s legal counsel sent the letter the project received.
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
Is bnetd really good for anything other than piracy? What’s the problem with using battle.net?
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
And all this goes down because of the DMCA which makes it illegal to reverse engineer other people’s code. I forsee more of this in the future unless someone gets the DMCA put in front of the Supreme Court. I have no doubt they’d shoot it down as a violation of the constitution.