[CLUE-Talk] DMCA vs. bnetd.

[anselmi at americanisp.net]

This is sadly funnny.  bnetd is a free server that does what Blizzard's 
battle.net server does.  battle.net is a free multi-player server for Blizzard 
games (Diablo, Starcraft, etc.)

The sad part is that Blizzard sent bnetd.org's ISP a letter which forced 
removal of the site (see www.bnetd.org).  Until the court battle is over, no 
site.  Hardly innocent until proven guilty.

The funny part is that some people claim DMCA is necessary for us to comply 
with WIPO treaties - my understanding is that European intellectual property 
laws are more strict than ours.  So here's a French guy offering to host the 
site since he isn't bound by DMCA (at least until he comes over here to visit).

Sigh, I need some coffee...

----- Forwarded message from Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang at inria.fr> -----
From: Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang at inria.fr>
To: "M. Drew Streib" <dtype at dtype.org>, <fsl-discuss at alt.org>
Subject: Re: [fsl-discuss] Fwd: [bnetd-announce] www.bnetd.org
Date: 2/21/02 3:42AM

If someone would send a tarball of the site, or of the offending part,
I would be happy to set it up here.
  (provided there is not tto much technical work to do ...)

I have no idea what bnetd is ...  I only know what freedom is.\

Bernard


On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 04:02:55AM +0000, M. Drew Streib wrote:
> Free software taking a hit in the name of DMCA...
> 
> -drew
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Ross Combs <rocombs at cs.nmsu.edu> -----
> 
> From: Ross Combs <rocombs at cs.nmsu.edu>
> To: bnetd-announce at bnetd.org
> Subject: [bnetd-announce] www.bnetd.org
> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 19:28:12 -0700
> 
> We regret to announce that the bnetd web site will be closed until
> further notice.  The site was shut down in accordance with the DMCA
> "take down" provision for ISPs.  In Blizzard's opinion, the bnetd
> software is an illegal copy control circumvention tool.
> 
> The main page for the bnetd site contains more information.
>   http://www.bnetd.org/
> 
> We would like to thank our users for all the support over the
> years and also al of the past and present developers.
> 
> -Ross