BNetd Decision

This may be already old news for some people but for those who are not aware of it - especially for those who think that license is not a contract, the court of appeals in the eighth circuit on September 1, 2005 (more than one month ago) ruled for Blizzard where people can give up their ability to reverse engineer through license, in spite of copyright law. The decision can be found in:

     http://www.eff.org/IP/Emulation/Blizzard_v_bnetd/20050901_decision.pdf

I don't know if there is any plan to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.

The lesson from the court case is to read license very carefully.

Joseph Pietro Riolo
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Number of days left until 1-1-2019 when all knowledge of 1923 in the land of the U.S.A. will be freed from their copyright owners' prisons: 4,837

Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain. Received on Mon Oct 03 2005 - 22:50:45 GMT