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Blizzard Petition
Petition to Blizzard Entertainment demanding it stop threatening bnetd and other third-party software with DMCA prosecution.
http://www.petitiononline.com/blizdmca/petition.html
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Chilling Effects Clearinghouse: Bnetd Project
Bilzzard's DMCA cease and desist letter with FAQ.
http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/notice.cgi?NoticeID=98
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Rebuttal to the Battle.net FAQ
Tim Neu's rebuttal to Battle.net's "Emulation FAQ".
http://www.visi.com/~tneu/blizzard.html
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Battle.net Emulation FAQ
Blizzard's answers to questions like "Why is Blizzard trying to shut down servers that emulate Battle.net?"
http://www.battle.net/support/emulationfaq.shtml
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DMCA Used to Shut Down Bnetd Project
"bnetd, a GPLed implementation of the BattleNet protocol server which powered such games as Starcraft and Diablo II, has been shut down due to Blizzard invoking the DMCA." News and reader discussion.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/2/20/221640/723
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Legal Analysis Critical of Blizzard v Bnetd
"Lawmeme.org (from the Yale Law School) has published a long piece with lots of background and legal analysis on the case. Conclusion: Blizzard has an uphill legal battle." News and reader discussion. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/27/1829252
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Some Games Aren't Fun
Editorial explaining how Blizzard's action could negatively impact the entire software industry. By Russell Pavlicek. [Infoworld]
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/03/11/020311opsource.xml
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EFF Blizzard v. bnetd Archive
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's archive of resources about the legal threat, including Vivendi's cease-and-desist letter and EFF's replies to corporate counsel explaining why their claims are unfounded.
http://www.eff.org/IP/Emulation/Blizzard_v_bnetd/
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Battle.net Goes to War
"Is an open-source version of Blizzard Entertainment's online gaming service an illegal copyright violation, or just a good example of how the Internet works?" [Salon]
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/18/bnetd/index.html
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Blizzard Rains on Bnetd Project
"Blizzard Entertainment has shut down the bnetd project using the DMCA, as declared in their site." News and reader discussion forum. [Slashdot]
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/21/0136256
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