[CLUE-Talk] DMCA vs. bnetd.

[Dave Hahn]

Isn't there a reverse engineering portion of the DMCA?  Or is it part of
another ancronym'd legislative decision?

On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 10:24, Grant Johnson wrote:

    anselmi at americanisp.net wrote:
    
    >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...
    >
    I fail to see how this is a copyright issue.  I may be nuts, but wasn't 
    the DMCA supposed to be extra copyright protection for digital media? 
     If anything, this could be trademark infringement, but I see no 
    copyright issues here at all.  Nothing was copied.
    
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