BNETD Shutdown
The BNETD project has been shut down (Thanks /.) after some legal threats sent in by Blizzard
Entertainment. BNETD was basically a battle.net system emulator that was under the GNU/GPL
license. Most recently people have been warezing copies of the Warcraft3 beta and playing
it on private custom modified BNETD servers. Here's a bit of the notice from Blizzard:
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
Along with the noble efforts of creating private servers, what BNETD also did was enabled people to use illegal copies of Blizzard games and play them online easily without worrying about authenticating their CD key on the Blizzard master servers.
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