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Re:Blizzard shutting down Nostalrius, popular WoW private se... by Lawtonfogle on Thursday April 07, 2016 @04:34PM (#11450472)
>Blizzard have right to control the history and evolution of the WoW universe.

Do they? They have the right to profit off of it and are allowed to set the only profit, but others are allowed to create evolutions of the universe in other directions as long as they don't profit. And if any of those are more popular, Blizzard has no recourse.

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Re:Blizzard shutting down Nostalrius, popular WoW private se... by EugeneOZ on Thursday April 07, 2016 @06:09PM (#11451085)
> but others are allowed to create evolutions of the universe

No, I disagree. It's Blizzard's right to decide, who is allowed to do it. Only Peter Jackson was allowed to create movie about Tolkien's universe - and it was right of the author, without any doubts. It's the same case.

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Re:Blizzard shutting down Nostalrius, popular WoW private se... by Lawtonfogle on Friday April 08, 2016 @09:08AM (#11454356)
Anyone could've created a movie. Only those given rights could profit off of it.
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