“The legal status of emulation programming took a very
precarious turn when Blizzard Entertainment and its parent company,
media conglomerate Vivendi Universal, filed suit against the
volunteer developers of the BNETD Project on April 5, 2002.“Developed under open source, BNETD is server software which
emulates most of the functionality of Blizzard’s online game
network, Battle.net. Irvine, Calif.-based Blizzard is the developer
and publisher of the enormously successful StarCraft, Warcraft and
Diablo role-playing game franchises, and its Battle.net service
enables fans of these games to play with others on the
Internet.
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