EULA - Stick it to Ya

October 27, 2004 on 9:26 am | In Uncategorized |

This post is a follow up to my recent post on Software Gaming Patents.  Earlier today I listened to the audio of an interesting discussion Ernest Miller had with Michael Madison (professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh) and Seth Finkelstein (an anti-censorship activist and programmer) regarding the Bnetd v. Blizzard case.  In the case, Bnetd had reverse engineered Blizzard’s Battle.net software (used to play multi-player games like Starcraft on-line).  The court found that Bnetd had violated the EULA and the DMCA in their reverse engineering, even though the EULA took away rights they would have normally had.  Miller’s post on LawMeme has the full background of the case.  InfoWorld and EFF have more information too.

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