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Re:Warcraft fans' fury at Blizzard over server closure by djsumdog on Thursday April 14, 2016 @10:05PM (#11501601)
It will also face the same fate of bnetd. Unless it gets hosted outside of the US jurisdiction (NZ banned software patents, but they sill enforce US copyright law; hence Kim dotcom).

I bet Blizzard will go after they OSS version too, just like they did with bnetd.

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Re:Warcraft fans' fury at Blizzard over server closure by thaumasiotes on Thursday April 14, 2016 @10:19PM (#11501643)
What copyright claim can Blizzard articulate against the nostalrius source code?
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Re:Warcraft fans' fury at Blizzard over server closure by unlinker on Friday April 15, 2016 @06:47AM (#11503351)
The source code and the database required to make it work contains the names of all spells, instances, quests and their briefings, NPCs...

Maybe they could even claim patents on the protocol? Who knows.

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Re:Warcraft fans' fury at Blizzard over server closure by unlinker on Friday April 15, 2016 @06:45AM (#11503343)
Well, Nostalrius was hosted in France (OVH), and it didn't change much.
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