Blizzard VS private servers

[Romis]

Wow, this is ridiculous!

This is just like that time I couldn't afford a Ferrari, so I just stole one. Fair enough, right? I mean, I can't afford one, but I want to drive one. Everybody wins. Ferrari isn't losing money because I wouldn't be paying them anyway!

Hey guys you know Windows, right? Well, I'm not going to make an identical copy to Windows with a few minor differences, and even though it's not very stable and crashes a lot and is slow, it's still pretty much Windows, since it uses all of its code. You can use it for free though! That's right, free!

What? You think this would be bad for Microsoft? No, they're already rich dude, who cares!

WHAT?! THEY'RE SUING ME?! THIS IS SO RETARDED.

QFT (invisible fillah?)

[Pwntzyou]

Very sad moment, I was hoping to start up another emulator server again... =(


Now I have to find a host in china!

[Nihilis131989]

Most of the private servers on the top 100 are corrupt and bad servers, they make more money then god in "donations" and i will say its not good to screw over blizz because they make great games. Like everyone else says if you cant pay for it then you cant play simple as that, Its just a shame that blizz judges all of the emu community on the actions of a few bad servers and groups of people. But i also beileve that the emu community has shown, and blizz should focus on this that people dont just want 1x servers and more of the same. Blizz should take this oppurtunity to notice what they need to do and ask for help as opposed to sueing everyone.

[volitle]

they have only shut down major servers as it would take too much time. money and effort to shut down all private servers

[-Lex]

Epic WIN!

[Calek]

I found this a ripe oppourtunity to almost-advertise my server and most likely get people private messaging about it to me and then I will lie to "avoid" getting in trouble about donations. Lulz

No one else sees this as a good time to strike for the little guy?
--Not me

*EDIT* (By me, Calek) WTF Hellgawd...I wasn't advertising my server, I was advertising this opportunity to fellow emulation enthusiests to create their OWN servers.

"--Not me" say's one of the creators of HeroicWoW.

..not cool dude.

[trancehax]

This is funny, GO GO BLIZZ FTW!

[Snailz]

This is just like a bilzzard banwave. exept they only take out top servers to scare others.

[Verye]

This is just like a bilzzard banwave. exept they only take out top servers to scare others.

That's exactly why they did it. It is a very common scare tactic: pick out a few big people (or communities, or groups, or in this case, servers) who are doing something illegal and use them as an example. They don't have the time, the effort, or the money to go after everyone, so they go after the biggest and use them as a precedent. NCSoft, the makers of Lineage 2, did this. I actually GM'd on 2 big L2 private servers (L2 Extreme and L2 Revenge), and I got pretty scared when L2X was hit. This is also done with piracy: pick a few big pirates, slap them down with a huge fine, and watch as the news stories of it spread all over the place.

[xXCharleyXx]

That's exactly why they did it. It is a very common scare tactic: pick out a few big people (or communities, or groups, or in this case, servers) who are doing something illegal and use them as an example. They don't have the time, the effort, or the money to go after everyone, so they go after the biggest and use them as a precedent. NCSoft, the makers of Lineage 2, did this. I actually GM'd on 2 big L2 private servers (L2 Extreme and L2 Revenge), and I got pretty scared when L2X was hit. This is also done with piracy: pick a few big pirates, slap them down with a huge fine, and watch as the news stories of it spread all over the place.

For sure, You need to be the WoW Lawyer to know this !
[/Sarcasm]

[Verye]

Oh, I know. This should be common sense.

[project anthrax]

we'll it shouldn't last that much longer then the top servers all turned out to be crap any way tho so im happy there gone

[Gothica639]

Eh, what a joke. Blizzard must be sleeping with the RIAA and learning their scare tactics. 1.6B a year... *shakes head*

[Greed]

blizzard isnt taking down private servers, nuf said

[Ease]

It's over, now go home.