[Discussioni] Fwd: Re: [fsl-discuss] bnetd.org - Was: Treaties and Domestic Law

[Claudio Cicali]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 09:02:47 +0100
Stefano Maffulli <stef a zoomata.com> wrote:

> ecco svelato l'arcano
> 
> ciao

Si` e no... io quel server lo usavo per giocare IN RETE LOCALE.
Il sistema di multiplayer di certi giochi della Blizzard, infatti,
permette solo di usare Internet come mezzo "fisico", e non una
normale LAN, seppur usando comuqnue il TCP/IP (o UDP nel caso di
Starcraft).
Quello che i signori di bnetd (ma ne esiste[va] anche un altro...)
hanno fatto e` semplicemente permettere di poter giocare in rete
locale a quei giochi disegnati per transitare solo e soltanto dai
server Blizzard.
Che poi questo, in termini di ritorno di $$$ e di DMCA, significhi
che in questo modo sia possibile controllare le CD-KEY, puo' comunque
essere vero. (la verifica del CD-KEY, in locale, non viene fatta,
ovvero due stessi CD-KEY possono giocare nella stessa partita...).
 
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> Subject: Re: [fsl-discuss] bnetd.org - Was: Treaties and Domestic Law
> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 20:02:22 -0800 (PST)
> From: Gabe Wachob <gwachob a wachob.com>
> To: "M. Drew Streib" <dtype a dtype.org>
> Cc: <fsl-discuss a alt.org>
> 
> After reading the info at bnetd.org, its clear what the issue is - in
> fact, bnetd does not do do a "CD-KEY" check (in fact, the specs on how to
> do that are probably "proprietary" so this, in combination with
> anti-circumvention rules means that effectively Blizzard can extend their
> copyright to prevent anybody from making "compatible" servers!). And it
> appears that someone else has taken the bnetd code and added to it to do
> the actual circumvention (not the bnetd people). In short, bnetd is not
> the ones doing the circumvention, but because the code is GPL, somehow
> bnetd is violating DMCA because they wrote code that *could be extended*
> to be a circumvention device? Thats pretty scary.
> 
> 	-Gabe
> 
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Gabe Wachob wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, M. Drew Streib wrote:
> > > Their "crime" was creating software that was capable of running a
> > > gaming server similar to Blizzard's Blizzard.net, catering to software
> > > such as Starcraft and Diablo.
> > >
> > > This case is distinctly different than the RIAA DMCA cases. Frankly,
> > > I'm a little confused as to what the alleged copyright violation is,
> > > since the games are legally owned by their respective owners, and no
> > > data other than the instances of games travel through the game servers.
> > > (And some chat around the games.)
> >
> > Are you sure that Blizzard isn't just selling you a license? This might
> > then be a UCITA+DMCA double backslap! The copyright infringement might be
> > contributory infringement of the license of the game to the "purchaser"
> > (in that the license may prevent the licensee from using any network
> > servers except BlizzardNet)
> >
> > 	-Gabe
> 
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