Whatever happened to BnetD?

[Taem]

Har har, jokes on me. Please allow me to defend myself with reasoning as to why I wrote that. Yes, I wrote that quickly without re-reading what I wrote. It's obviously not a “hack”, but it is a “crack”, so <smack> my <rack> and show me some <slack> :P . In the Lurker Lounges RULES tab, it clearly states it's Anti-Cheat policy. I ask you, what is a cheat? Is a cheat a ‘hack’ or a ‘crack’ or both or is it something else? I think its clearly defined on battle.net here: http://www.blizzard.com/inblizz/genfaq.shtml, and in your User License Agreement where it says the use of any third party program is a “CHEAT”. I was trying to uphold the integrity of the Lurker Lounge standards with what I wrote. There are many programs that are not ‘hacks’ in the conventional sense of the word, nor do they allow you to ‘cheat’ in game, but I still don't believe any of these programs would be allowed for discussion here at the LL - such as:

D2LOADER - Which allows you to play Diablo off of your hard-drive and blocks the windows key from popping up - also is customizable for uploading "hacks" such as maphack and color hack
D2CDKEY - Which allows you to play multiple copies of Diablo on one computer (if you have VALID CD-Keys only!)
REALM MONITOR - Check to see if the realm is up without opening D2
'VARIOUS' SNIFFER PROGRAMS - Used to sniff out packets sent too and from battle.net
ETC.

Why don't I feel these programs would be allowed on the Lurker Lounge? Because the RULES for using Battle.net say the use of any third party program used while on Battle.net is a CHEAT, however there are also programs I feel are not “cheats” according to blizzard because they aren't used on Battle.net such as:

JAMELLA'S EDITOR - Character editor
SHADOWMASTER - Character editor
SHOW CDKEY - Run this to find out your installed cdkeys in case you lost them
VARIOUS MODS - Modifications of a game
ETC.

What does BnetD do? It emulates Battle.net. How did they go about doing this? It required “hackers” to “sniff” a multitude of packets (legit or non-legit - what do you say? Sniffers have lead to 90% of all the “hacks” on Battle.net, which is why most people don't have them), reconstruct the code for battle.net (legal? We will find out in this latest court battle soon), and decompile D2 and WC3 (unproven - other then what I've read on various sites where they said they DID decompile these games – but from what I've been told, this is illegal).

Excuse me for trying to abide by the rules of the L.L., but I do respect this place and its Administrators. By supporting BnetD, even though its an emulator (which isn’t a cheat as defined by Blizzard), the methods they used to make this emulator was derived from programs clearly labeled as “cheats”, both by Blizzard and the L.L., so by supporting BnetD, your supporting “cheaters”. Sound ludicrous? Perhaps it is, but at least that’s what went through my mind when I first wrote my initial post.