Press Releases: March, 2002
March 12th, 2002
Media Conglomerate Threatens Suit Against Gamer Community
EFF Condemns Copyright Abuse
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today chided media conglomerate Vivendi Universal Publishing for threatening gamers who created their own multiplayer gaming community.
On behalf of its Blizzard Entertainment division, Vivendi sent a "cease and desist" letter to Internet Gateway Inc., the Internet Service Provider (ISP) host of a free software project called "bnetd" that emulates Blizzard's Battle.net gaming service. Blizzard game purchasers can meet online or on a local area network to chat, find competition, and start multiplayer games using the bnetd software.
