Blizzard sends DMCA takedown to Stealthbot host's host

[Ringo]

Hmm maybe blizzard have decided to put money into there older games, now they are making money from world of warcraft.
If this is for reall, then maybe it could be related to somthing that was added to stealth bot with in the last few months, also keep in mind that stealthbot is most likely the most used public bot for battle.net (im guessing).
Having many war3 featchers, enables a user to gain access to war3 featchers such as clan Recruiting, and clan creating with out having to go out and buy the game. This is just a idea.
Anyway i found a little more infomation on the related subject:
http://chillingeffects.org/copyright/
i hope this comes of some use.
all the best in this uncertain time.
Ringo.

[Arta]

I daresay the email will reference violations of the EULA, which prohibits you from writing a client (not just reverse engineering). It's clearly unreasonable, but ho hum.

Be aware that just modifiying the icons will not be sufficient. You need new ones, or such significant modification that they appear to be new. This is why I asked Spht to create me some new icons for TestBNCS - I'm sure he won't mind you using them if you want to. 

[MyndFyre]

I daresay the email will reference violations of the EULA, which prohibits you from writing a client (not just reverse engineering). It's clearly unreasonable, but ho hum.

The EULA is a state-level contract in conflict with federal law (DCMA, no less) -- where the federal law is what is protecting our fair use of the software in terms of reverse engineering.  Because US constitutional law mandates that federal law supercedes or "preempts" state law, an EULA should have no standing in court when it conflicts with the DMCA.

Interesting, and all you guys said that the DMCA would screw us over

[RhiNo]

I am no longer into battle.net but i would hate to see bots disappear. Stealth contact me via aim...

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[QwertyMonster]

Is it me, or has B.net gone 100% to try and stop bots, and all things like that.


Why are battle.net doing it now, whats so special about stopping bots now? Why couldnt they of tried before, or later. Is it me, or do you think Battle.net want to stop bots for a very good reason...

[TaGBaN]

Ok, first of all, I've been in a legal mix with Blizzard for almost a year now, and they've yet to do anything serious about stopping bots.

If Blizzard didn't want bots on Battle.net, they could alter the connection sequence so far, as to have it so that ALL current bots wouldn't work.

As far as your mention of '[email protected]', all reports of any legal entanglement to my website ( BNET.cc ) were directed from [email protected], or later from the actual VUGames lawyer ( [email protected] ).

So any emails directely from [email protected], are 99% garaunteed fake, as Blizzard does infact, not have their own legal department (unless they've changed something since I've been in touch with them).

As far as I know, they have to contact you, not your host, and give you 48 hours to remove the file(s). Whats more, if you remove them, you can put them back up within 48 hours, under a different name. ( lol )

The lawyer I spoke with from VUGames is very nice and accomodating, and I think we talked on the phone for almost 2 hours, discussing possibly legal consultation, as well as inquiries about how to protect my site from this happening again. Here is his information:


Rod Rigole
Senior Counsel
Vivendi Universal Games, Inc.
(310) 431-4099  (direct)
[email protected]

I also have the original emails, as I used to have them on an html page on my website, but if anyone really needs a copy of them, I'd be happy to send ya one.

~Tagban

[Stealth]

Thanks, TaGBaN. I will get in touch with him.

[TaGBaN]

Anytime Stealthy boy. :-P

[shout]

I hope this works out for you stealth.

Yay! 400th post!

[QwertyMonster]

Battle.net cant possibly stop Stealthbot. Its a very popular bot, im sure hes got alot of people on his side.

[Soul Taker]

Battle.net cant possibly stop Stealthbot. Its a very popular bot, im sure hes got alot of people on his side.

That's a stupid stance.

[Lenny]

I wonder why Battle.net would started going after bots now?  They've been around long enough and  they haven't taken any strong action to stop them. 

What's even more strange is why they would be going after stealthbot.  As far as I can remember, stealthbot has been a benign presence in Battle.net.

I'm beginning to doubt that this has anything to do with the DMCA takedown and Blizzard.

Perhaps the popularity of stealthbot has attracted some unwanted users...

[Warrior]

Battle.net isn't directly against Bot's as I have asked Blizzard Representatives and they say they really don't care. Hosting Binaries or something  they said they will take actions.

[Blaze]

I think this is someone playing a cruel trick.

[Archangel]

For the icons, you have to make 10 changes to it for it to be legal.