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Negate said:
The server is working, so I must be clueless. You clearly don't understand the load a server has to take when hundreds of people raid.

Blizzard never actually claims that anything about the emulated servers, themselves, is illegal. Rather, they attempt to mislead you into believing that the servers are illegal by associating them with illegal copies of the World of WarCraft client. They do have a legal argument, however, albeit a weak one, which is that the development and existence of these servers encourages the distribution of pirated copies of the game, and thus the servers should be considered illegal. Such an argument would not, in my un-professional opinion, stand in any court, as I can't believe that Blizzard has much of anything to back it up.

Go look up the case of Blizzard v. Bnetd. Emulated servers are not illegal.

Bnetd, as far as I know, basically offered the same service (which was not necessary to play the game) for the same price. However, to play World of WarCraft on one of Blizzard's servers, you must pay a monthly fee, and if you do not pay that fee, you cannot play that game (unless you find a private server). Blizzard certainly knows all this, and judging by their official comment, the additional legal information they almost certainly have probably indicates to them that they would at least be on very shaky ground coming out and denouncing WoW private servers as illegal.
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again

I'm not TALKING about THE LOAD ON THE SERVER

IM TALKING ABOUT THE INTERNET LINE SPEED

Mods, please feel free to put another infraction on me... because I'm THIS close to insulting this guy
 
Negate said:
illegal copies of the World of WarCraft client
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Okay, I'm suprised you remember to breathe....

You can download the entire WoW client for free. How would they associate emulated servers with illegal copies of their client when their client is FREE?
 
Acid: he doesnt know what he is talking about just ignore his silly remarks. He wants to get us worked up.

Ive known of sites shut down for emulators he clearly hasnt done his homework into the matter.
 
Om my word, that is the info of a legal case blizzard lost last year, you tard. If the court says it is not illegal then that basically means it is legal. And they only have a free trial of there client. Notice the word Trial.
 
I remember reading the T&C and stuff the other day with the new patch and I clearly saw the definition of emulated servers being regarded illegal.

And no I'm not getting worked up, I'm just suprised people out there with his caliber knows how to post on forums and stuff.

Justae I trust, CU I trust. If they bring a WoW emu out (like they did with UO) and run it (and maybe get that other dude who's name I forgot now) in as well, THEN I'll consider playing because at least I know they know what they're talking about.

*sigh*
 
oh ok, then prove me otherwise, where is the court case where it was decided emulated server are illegal? hmmm? blizzard cant decide what and what is not ileagal. Law does not work that way.
 
Negate said:
Om my word, that is the info of a legal case blizzard lost last year, you tard. If the court says it is not illegal then that basically means it is legal. And they only have a free trial of there client. Notice the word Trial.
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link pls
 
Negate said:
Om my word, that is the info of a legal case blizzard lost last year, you tard. If the court says it is not illegal then that basically means it is legal. And they only have a free trial of there client. Notice the word Trial.
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Are you mentally handicapped? The client is NOT trial'ed the account you login to there servers are the trials.

And no i am not talking about wowglider if you are refering to that.
 
A group of gamers reverse engineered the network protocol used by Battle.net and Blizzard games, and released a free (under the GNU GPL) Battle.net emulation package called bnetd. With bnetd, a gamer is not required to use the official Battle.net servers to play Blizzard games.

In February of 2002, lawyers retained by Blizzard threatened legal action under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act against the developers of bnetd. Blizzard games are designed to operate online exclusively with a set of Blizzard-controlled servers collectively known as "Battle.net". Battle.net servers include a CD key check as a means of preventing software piracy.

Despite offers from the bnetd developers to integrate Blizzard's CD key checking system into bnetd, Blizzard claims that the public availability of any such software package facilitates piracy, and moved to have the bnetd project shut down under provisions of the DMCA. As this case is one of the first major test cases for the DMCA, the Electronic Frontier Foundation became involved, for a while negotiations were ongoing to resolve the case without a trial. The negotiations failed however, and Blizzard won the case on all counts: the defendants were ruled to have breached both StarCraft's End User License Agreement (EULA) and the Terms of Use of Battle.net.

This decision was appealed to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, which also ruled in favor of Blizzard/Vivendi on September 1, 2005.
 
So your case reference is wrong Negate, as the court ruled in favour of blizzard. You obviously didnt read it did you?:)
 
Negate said:
Om my word, that is the info of a legal case blizzard lost last year, you tard. If the court says it is not illegal then that basically means it is legal. And they only have a free trial of there client. Notice the word Trial.
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You are not making many friends. Please go spam this s**t somewhere else and let us real players enjoy this sub forum for a legitimate purpose.
 
The court dismissed the copyright misuse claim because the issue
was contract law, not copyright law and prohibiting competition
is, apparently, not an example of copyright misuse in the first
place.

Blizzard sued with many
different copyright, trademark, contract and DMCA claims. After
many procedural issues, the EULA and DMCA claims were all that
was left. That basically means only the license agreements in the EULA are valid infringements. Thus a pirate copy of the game. Another thing about law, judges always look at previous court cases. So even if Blizzard sues other private servers they will get no where.

http://osdir.com/ml/org.dmca-activists/2004-10/msg00001.html
 
Wow you guys are stupid. LOL, they won the case on the eula because Bnetd used illegal keys to play on battlenet. Private servers of today dont do that anymore. It is as legal as breathing. Read th entire case.
 
Negate said:
Wow you guys are stupid. LOL, they won the case on the eula because Bnetd used illegal keys to play on battlenet. Private servers of today dont do that anymore. It is as legal as breathing. Read th entire case.
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The point of my posting that was , they reverse engineered it. Which is one emulator coders do also. But go do it, who cares you are nobody:).

Also remove yourself from these forums.
 
why should i remove myself form the forums. Because we disagree on a matter? Read the entire case, you are mis quoting what the prosecution claimed! Again any issues of copyright on server was dismissed, do you understand what copyright means? that means Blizzard has no legal claim on the intellectual property of free emulated servers. They only have claim on the license agreements contained in the eula. And that only covers pirate copies of the game not servers.
 
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Well perhaps you shouldnt promote your illegal activities here. Doesnt shine well for MYBB
 
I just proved to you it is not illegal. Shall we listen to what blizzard says or to what the court says?
 
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