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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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