Whatever happened to BnetD?

[Jarulf]

It seems bnetd.org is down, and the only thing useful I could find on google was this: http://www.eff.org/IP/Emulation/Blizzard_v_bnetd/

But it doesn't contain the results of any trial or anything (or if it has even begun yet). Anyone have the inside scoop?

>The only place I can find info about that is on hack
>sites, which I WILL NOT give out addresses too, so
>your outta luck.


ildon allready gave a link to a good site with information on. Appearantly you now seem to have a pretty hiloarious view on what "hack site" means calling eff's site a hack site. But then, we still don't know how you define or use "hack/hacker".

As seen on the page, the trial seem to not yet have occured. It will include some interesting "topics" though, since one relatively large part of it seems to be the validity of licence agreements for games (or software in general actually). There are many other aspcest of interest to it as well.

>In a round-about way, isisnt this the same as a "hack"?

Huh? You define emulators as hacks? Or if not, would you care to share your definition of hack with us? I can't see how one can come up with this concusion though. But then, people use the "hack" word today to mean basically anything.

> I think it even saves your characters.

It wouldn't be a good emulator if it didn't, now would it :)

>Some hackers

Again, enlighten us on your use of this word. You seem to toss it arround without knowing what you really are using it on.


>"somehow" decompiled enough coding from games, (maybe inside sources), and reading packets to create the emulator.

Decompiling something is easy, there is no "somehow" to it. You can use a waste veriety of decompiler programs that exists. (No idea about your inside sources reference though, what do you mean? Or are you just tossing out wild ideas pretending it is probably true and wanting to give others a non biased opinion on it? As for how to emulate bnet (the chat part at least), you really don't need to decomplie anything. You just listen to the traffic going out and in to your computer.Nothing wrong with that. That is actually quite common. Sure, you can USE it for various more or less good reasons. Some have used it to find ways to cheat the game, others have used it to write an emulator, or really, a mathc making service for various Blizzard games.