Sorry, this mail is long, boring, and OFF-TOPIC. Fortunally enough, Its also boring for me, so this is my last mail about the topic.
I read good responses on this threads for others guys. Looks like a good advice is to avoid other people IP and generate our own IP.
Bruce "Bahamut" Andrews wrote:
er, that's because both of those activities are illegal.
The coolness about C&S letter is that you dont need to proff that. People runaway because lack the money and lawyers. Its like dark ages on europe: the lords always right and onlaw, and villagers the illegal and evile.
[#1] You are right because you have the money.
Also because corporations put money on law makings and individuals not, so the law is customized to corporationds needs. Usa word for that is lobby*.
[#2] If you are wrong, you can change the law with more money.
One feeds off the Blizzard franchise and makes them lose sales on their *craft games,
Yes, everything with *craft is owned by Blizzard.
Lovecraft Lovecraft's Wollstonecraft Wollstonecraft's Hovercraft Hovercraft's Schoolcraft Schoolcraft's aircraft aircraft's craft craft's crafted craftier craftiest craftily crafting crafts craftsman craftsman's craftsmen crafty handicraft handicraft's handicrafts spacecraft spacecraft's spacecrafts witchcraft witchcraft's craftsmanship craftsmanship's antiaircraft craftiness craftiness's handcraft handcraft's handcrafted handcrafting handcrafts hovercraft hovercraft's watercraft watercraft's woodcraft woodcraft's aircraftman aircraftman's aircraftmen craftspeople craftswoman craftswomen freecraft hovercrafts stagecraft stagecraft's needlecraft needlecraft's statecraft statecraft's bookcraft bookcraft's bushcraft bushcraft's craftsmanlike craftsperson craftwork craftwork's handicrafter handicrafters handicraftsman handicraftsman's handicraftsmen kingcraft kingcraft's priestcraft priestcraft's swordcraft swordcraft's aircraftsman aircraftsman's aircraftsmen aircraftswoman aircraftswoman's aircraftswomen aircraftwoman aircraftwomen antiaircrafts authorcraft bardcraft bushcrafts campcraft campcraft's campcrafts courtcraft crafter crafters craftinesses craftless craftmanship craftmanships craftsmanly craftsmanships craftsmaster craftsmasters craftspersons folkcraft handcraftsman handcraftsmanship handcraftsmanships handcraftsmen handicraftswoman homecraft homecrafts housecraft icecraft kingcrafts leechcraft mothercraft needlecrafts pencraft priestcrafts queencraft rivercraft roadcraft rotorcraft rotorcraft's runecraft schoolcraft scoutcraft scoutcrafts screencraft seacraft seacrafts shuttlecraft siegecraft smithcraft songcraft speechcraft stagecrafts statecrafts stitchcraft tradecraft tradecrafts warcraft warcrafts watercrafts witchcrafts woodcrafter woodcrafters woodcrafts woodcraftsman woodcraftsmen adcraft aerocraft aircrafts antipriestcraft artcraft authorcrafts birdcraft braincraft churchcraft countercraft courtcrafts craftly craftsmenship craftsmenships craftworker craftworker's craftworks cushioncraft fathercraft fellowcraft forestcraft gamecraft gardencraft ghostcraft guidecraft handcraftman handicraftship handicraftship's handicraftsmanship handicraftsmanship's handicraftswomen healthcraft horsecraft housecrafts ketchcraft lawcraft leathercraft leechcrafts metalcraft monkcraft mothercrafts naturecraft novelcraft outcraftied outcrafties outcrafty outcraftying pencrafts picturecraft plainscraft playcraft playcraftsman poetcraft prairiecraft princecraft queencrafts redecraft redecrafts ringcraft roadcrafts rockcraft rotocraft runecrafts scenecraft schoolcrafts screencrafts seacrafty seamancraft seercraft shipcraft shoecraft siegecrafts skycraft smithcrafts snowcraft songcrafts spaecraft speechcrafts spellcraft starcraft statuecraft stitchcrafts stonecraft swordcrafts tailorcraft theatercraft thiefcraft tonguecraft tyrantcraft uncraftily uncraftiness uncraftiness's uncrafty undercraft veldcraft versecraft viziercraft vizircraft whipcraft witcraft withercraft wondercraft woodcraftiness woodcrafty woodmancraft woodmancraft's wordcraft wordcraftsman
and the other is completely illegal and goes against their End User Lisence Agreement (my GSP looked into doing this some time ago and decided against it because of that).
The EULA is not a law, Its a contract. And you cant broken a contract you have not sign. No one on Freecraft or BNETD have sign that EULA.
For gods sake, Freecraft is a generic RTS with tolkien-is monsters, the only link is somewhat similar chars on name. Its preposterous!
Its the RTS genre original, or a ripoff of older titles? What Warcraft the first RTS? Whats Dune2? Whats Napoleon Bonaparte (that french general) and his table wargames?
Sue Napoleon Bonaparte!
The bnetd effectively circumvents the cd key protection, put in place for obvious reasons.
Also pens circumbents protections, and the shift key on keyboards, and linux, and mac*. Any no-Adobe Postscript able you to print any PDF, even "protected" ones.
You will jail pens makers, keyboard makers, Apple guys and Steven Jobs, the ghostscript coders, and whatever not work with lame protection schemes?
BNETD its NOT a crack, or a keygen, Its a tool to play the game you pay for the way you want to play it.
Humm... the dog byte the hand that feeds here.
BAD DOG, BAD!!
If Blizzard choose to force the game to be completely based on their Battle.NET servers when played online that's their choice.
No.
If General Motors choice to force General Motors Oil on General Motors cars its not is choice.
If I buy a General Motors car and want to crash the car against a tree only because I like the resulting metal scrap, Its my car. I pay for the dawn car. I own the car.
Anyway, wen you buy a General Motors car you sign a contract. But If you code a interoperativity tool you sign nothing, so you need to obey no constructor rules.
I dont need to obey General Motors rules about how to cross the street, because I have not sign nothing, not GM EULA. So I can cross the street at my will.
Its not the choice of Blizzard to rule on other people code.
BAD DOG!.. DONT BYTE THE HAND!
note: Blizzard make fantastic good games. I like Blizzard, but I hate C&D letters.
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