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Site Navigation Main    News    Forums Games    Games Database    Top 100    Release List    Support Files Features    Reviews    Previews    Interviews    Editorials    Diaries    Misc Download    Gallery    Music    Screenshots    Videos Miscellaneous    Staff Members    Privacy Statement   BattleNet vs. bnetD - A Legal Analysis (PC: Single- & Multi-Player RPG) | Posted by Rendelius @ Wednesday - February 27, 2002 - 14:25 - Top | Game Info | Rate this game | Homepage At a site called LawMeme, Ernest Miller has written a legal analysis of the case of Blizzard sueing bnetD, a free service that offers the functionality of BattleNet without requiring CD keys to be entered. Here's what he says about the claim that bnetD violates copyright laws: To my knowledge there is no law that holds that reverse engineering a protocol through packet dumping implicates copyright in any way. Vivendi might claim that special programs to assist users of bnetd to edit their Windows registry violated copyright. As mentioned above, the Windows registry consists of configuration files that can be modified by the user using regedit.exe which is part of every version of Windows. It is not at all clear how provision of a program to make editing certain portions of the registry easier would violate an exclusive right of the copyright holder. Moreover, it is not clear whether a user who alters the registry is violating copyright. They may be violating the EULA (more below), but that is not a violation of copyright. Source: Planet Diablo

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