popular non blizzard servers exist?

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Rastaputin

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popular non blizzard servers exist?

hey all,

just wondering if there are any other popular servers for d2 lod 1.10 which aren't owned by blizzard? i'm using ender at the moment, which seems to have 100 players minimum online at all times, but before i get in too deep i wanted to test the waters here and see if anybody had a better server i could use.

ot: played for about five minutes, followed some other new players into the catacombs.. open a chest and bam, gull drops. two other players were within reach, but i managed to snag it quickest. been playing 1.10 for at least 20 hours a week for the past year, and this is the first time gull has dropped for me ;)
 
Because unlike battle.net, most of them are not a group of multiple servers and probably don't even have 2 processors. I did see 1 type of server that actualy connected the variouse servers accross the world together, but it only supported open diablo 2 and I forget it's name. Also, are you sure they are all illegal? I know there was a realy big 1 that blizz did nothing to stop existing before the 1 that they sued.
 
well, i'm sorry for inviting someone to breach the rules. anybody know exactly why they're illegal? i know of some very large servers that have 'not to be used for profit gain' written everywhere available - hard to see how something like that could be sued. sigh - only in america.

if anyone wants to give me a heads-up: [email protected]
 
Well, it was sued for not having security messures checking CD-keys. Also, the one I was speaking about before I remembered it's name (it was made for starcraft), but it seams to have died :(
 
Rastaputin said:
well, i'm sorry for inviting someone to breach the rules. anybody know exactly why they're illegal? i know of some very large servers that have 'not to be used for profit gain' written everywhere available - hard to see how something like that could be sued. sigh - only in america.

if anyone wants to give me a heads-up: [email protected]
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It probably goes against someone's EULA.
 
Diabloii.net news archive said:
BnetD Action - Elly [17:43:PST]

Today Blizzard issued a formal demand that BnetD.org is to cease operations. Warcraft III beta was cracked within days of release and BnetD.org enabled online play outside of the Battlenet realms. Blizzard lawyers claim that BnetD was infringing the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) by bypassing the CD key check and their piracy preventative measures.

"The aforementioned site either hosts or distributes software which illegally modifies and/or alters Blizzard Entertainment copyrighted software or bypasses anti-circumvention technology, thereby infringing upon Blizzard Entertainment copyrights."

The forums have been ablaze with comments from the community on this one. BnetD's website served as a medium for people to play the ISO pirated Beta version on BnetD servers and if it was not shut down the trend would continue once the full game was released. Those using the pirated copies of the Warcraft III beta are understandably very annoyed about this action.

Do not take heart from this and assume Blizzard will finally take action against the hackers that have wreaked havoc with Diablo II. We believe this action is only as a result of the pirated copies of the beta as BnetD has been up and running for some time now, as has FSGS (which only runs Diablo II and Starcraft, well past their sales peak now).
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This was posted between Feb 21 and march 5 of 2002. I feal they explained it alot better than me.
 
ripsky4501 said:
It probably goes against someone's EULA.
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Since when is an EULA a law applicable to everyone? Even assuming that any and all EULA are perfectly valid and enforcible, one could just make sure that anyone running or making such servers have not agreed to the EULA, hence it would not be applicable.
 
September 30, 2004
Dangerous Ruling Menaces Rights of Free Software Programmers

Contract and Copyright Trump Fair Use and Competition in BnetD Case

St. Louis - Fair use was dealt a harsh blow today in a Federal Court decision that held that programmers are not allowed to create free software designed to work with commercial products. At issue in the case was whether three software programmers who created the BnetD game server -- which interoperates with Blizzard video games online -- were in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and Blizzard Games' end user license agreement (EULA).

BnetD is an open source program that lets gamers play popular Blizzard titles like Warcraft with other gamers on servers that don't belong to Blizzard's Battle.net service. Blizzard argued that the programmers who wrote BnetD violated the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions and that the programmers also violated several parts of Blizzard's EULA, including a section on reverse engineering.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), co-counsel for the defendants, argued that programming and distributing BnetD was fair use. The programmers reverse-engineered Battle.net purely to make their free product work with it, not to violate copyright.

EFF Staff Attorney Jason Schultz said, "Consumers have a right to choose where and when they want to use the products they buy. This ruling gives Blizzard the ability to force you to use their servers whether you want to or not. Copyright law was meant to promote competition and creative alternatives, not suppress them."

EFF will appeal the case, challenging the court's ruling that creating alternative platforms for legitimately purchased content can be outlawed.
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