Whatever happened to BnetD?

[WarLocke]

Another was that the BnetD software circumvented content protection mechanisms (that is, the CD-KEY check).

That really doesn't hold water, though. At the time, the BNetD people asked Blizzard for their key-checking system, or at least a way to direct BNetD logins to Blizzard's verification servers, but as I understand it Blizzard not only did not cooperate, they never replied to the requests at all.

So Blizzard used a 'crack' that they wouldn't help the developers close as one of the complaints in the lawsuit(s)? That seems pretty childish, IMO.

Edit:

Peer-to-peer software is along the same lines - great software that's misused, and the RIAA has every right to crack down on it. But that's a whole 'nother can of worms

I can't resist, Bolt. ;)

I saw a clip on the Daily Show the other day (yeah, I know, fake news - but the clip was real, if out-of-context) of an RIAA rep. His little blurb was something along the lines of "These file-sharers need to learn not to bite the hand... that makes the music."

I can just imagine him wanting to finish with "that feeds them" and hastily deciding not to after realizing what kind of backlash that would get for the RIAA. Also, I predist in 15 or 20 years when the music industry is bunk and everyone downloads their favorite group's music from their site for free, we'll be laughing (bitterly) at the fat capitalists that couldn't resist sueing their own customer base...