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Court Rules Independent Battle.net Game Servers Violate Copyrights

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 6, 2005 - 6:26am.
St. Louis -- The U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that programmers violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) when they created their own multiplayer game servers for Vivendi Universal-owned game publisher Blizzard Entertainment's games, CNET News.com reported. Programmers had created their own unofficial versions of Blizzard's Battle.net online gaming service for titles like "Diablo" and "Warcraft", after complaints about the official site's performance. In its 3-0 decision, which upheld a lower court's October ruling, the appeals court said that the defendants violated the agreement they clicked on when installing Blizzard's games on their computers that prohibits reverse-engineering.
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Vivendi's Blizzard Wins Case Over Rival Battle.net Online Game Servers

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 11, 2004 - 2:34am.
Los Angeles -- A federal judge has ruled that Vivendi Universal's Blizzard Entertainment video game publishing division was acting within the law when it blocked a third-party company from offering software enabling users to host their own online tournaments for its "StarCraft" and "Diablo" online multiplayer games. Blizzard runs its own in-house online game service for the titles at Battle.net. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri ruled that St. Louis-based ISP Internet Gateway's BnetD software violated both Blizzard's software's license agreements, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The ruling prohibits Internet Gateway from further distributing its BnetD software.
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