hmm Court KOs online game bypass program

[riderx]

hree men illegally bypassed anti-piracy controls when they developed free technology to let computer users play some games against each other online without using the gamemaker's own system, a federal appeals court has ruled.

Attorneys for Tim Jung, Ross Combs and Rob Crittenden had argued that the trio engaged in allowable "fair use" because they had legally bought the games and were not profiting from the bypass technology, called BnetD.

Although the trio could have used Blizzard Entertainment Inc.'s Battle.net game service for free, they found it frustrating and preferred the dozens of additional features available through the BnetD technology they had developed, their lawyers said.

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http://www.businessweek.com/ap/finan...h_down&chan=tc

[Digital Bliss]

If i buy a game and don't want to play on the games networks why should you not be able to find ways around it?

[crash4419]

jeeze the USA government is so shitty