11-17-2008, 06:57 PM
Heiho,
they most probably discriminate via checksum (for sure not only with that). The aforementioned change of bnet EULA allowed blizz to scan your HDD. Now, with nowadays HDD sizes, scanning all the content would be quite time consumptive (all other aspects aside). What they can rely on are the files they know - those which were installed/patched originally.
Being more rigid means to include more of the original files into checksum-building. This is most probably why the changed dll didn't lead to a ban before.
The point is, 3rd-party-tools corrumping network traffic wouldn't be noticed (I don't say they won't have other means to check those, but a simple checksum of their own stuff wouldn't be enough). OTOH, a simple replacement of the videos with empty video files - which was also used by quite a bunch of players to accelerate the act-switch - will count as hack and lead to a ban as soon as blizz people decide to include the video.mpq into checksum routine.
Quote:I do think they discriminate despite the fact that technically any third-party could be a ban. How would they discriminate?
they most probably discriminate via checksum (for sure not only with that). The aforementioned change of bnet EULA allowed blizz to scan your HDD. Now, with nowadays HDD sizes, scanning all the content would be quite time consumptive (all other aspects aside). What they can rely on are the files they know - those which were installed/patched originally.
Being more rigid means to include more of the original files into checksum-building. This is most probably why the changed dll didn't lead to a ban before.
The point is, 3rd-party-tools corrumping network traffic wouldn't be noticed (I don't say they won't have other means to check those, but a simple checksum of their own stuff wouldn't be enough). OTOH, a simple replacement of the videos with empty video files - which was also used by quite a bunch of players to accelerate the act-switch - will count as hack and lead to a ban as soon as blizz people decide to include the video.mpq into checksum routine.