Actually, Blizzard has mostly ignored BNETD for the last few years.  I have 
played on it myself, and it was a nice way to quickly find friends to play 
Starcraft, without logging into Battle.Net.

The main problem only occurred recently during the Warcraft III beta.  It 
heard that BNETD cracked the CD-Key check, which means that anyone who gets 
a hold of the beta CD can log into BNETD and start playing.  Warcraft III's 
beta CD only allowed for multi-player testing on battle.net, not single 
player -- therefore you MUST log into Battle.net to play.

On one hand BNETD is right because it was reversed-engineered, which is 
legal.  On the other hand, illegally playing Warcraft III beta on BNETD can 
undermine initial sales of the game, since gamers will know that they can 
copy the final production cd and play it on BNETD without a valid CD-Key.

In my opinion, BNETD was simply stupid.  If they have delayed Warcraft III 
support until long after the official release, then I honestly believe that 
Blizzard would have left them alone.  (some developers of BNETD actually 
left the group because of this very issue).

A detailed article on this can be found at:
http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=149

Personally, I don't think this will have much effect on OGL stuff, whatever 
the outcome is.

~Le


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