BnetD vu par Wired

Par Mind le 12/4/2002 à 23:15:17 (#1276763)

Wired porte un regard assez étonnant sur l'affaire Blizzard/Vivendi vs BnetD/Internet Gateway.

Lawsuit Could Stunt Online Games
By Brad King

10:55 a.m. April 12, 2002 PDT
In a move that could ultimately make it harder for online gamers to compete against one another, Vivendi Universal filed suit against a small ISP that helps distribute an open-source software application.

At issue is whether players should be allowed to bypass sluggish corporate servers, where games are hosted, and create their own networks.
To compete against thousands of opponents, players must sign into centralized server networks that house the worlds. The problem for game companies is that traffic bogs down the system, as tens of thousands of users attempt to log into the servers. That slows down the play.

To alleviate that problem, game companies generally allow players to set up mini-servers independent of the game companies. Nobody interviewed for this report recalls a lawsuits ever being filed against such mini-serves.

Avid players of Starcraft, WarCraft and Diablo -- a series of highly popular Vivendi games -- created just such a network.

To log in, people merely had to download a software application -- which the players developed and gave away for free -- called BnetD. There was little fuss made about the network until Internet Gateway, a St. Louis ISP, decided to distribute the software itself.

Suddenly, Vivendi decided to go after the company and its founder Tim Jung, asking a federal judge to prohibit the company from distributing the software. Vivendi is also seeking an unspecified amount for copyright and trademark damages.

While the lawsuit probably won't stop the development of these types of networks -- no more than shutting down Napster stopped music file-sharing -- it does send a message to programmers thinking about getting involved with these projects.

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La suite : http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,51747,00.html

Je suis le seul à trouver cette vision de l'affaire très particulière ?

J'ai l'impression que Brad King s'est fait écrire son article par un membre de l'équipe de développement de BnetD. :)

Par Marnot-Tmp le 12/4/2002 à 23:24:38 (#1276812)

En français sa donne quoi? :rolleyes:

Par Marnot-Tmp le 12/4/2002 à 23:25:26 (#1276817)

S'il te plait :)
J'ai compris une partie mais pas tous...

Par Claxos Verbitur le 12/4/2002 à 23:56:07 (#1276974)

Effectivement, le moins qu'on puisse dire c'est que c'est biaisé ! Vive l'indépendance de la presse, ça vallait le coup que nos grand-parents se battent si c'est pour lire de telles débilités !

Par Dreadskulo le 13/4/2002 à 0:07:21 (#1277020)

Ouais ben en vla un qui doit bien s eclater avec sa beta pirate de war 3 ;)
Sinon je vois pas ce que cet article apporte au debat BnetD ......lol le jeu online en peril ...on aura tout vu
Certes BnetD offrait une alternative aux serveurs blizzard quand ceux ci sont blindes mais je crois pas que Battle.net represente le panel de TOUS les jeux online sur terre non plus :rolleyes:

Par Mind le 13/4/2002 à 0:12:00 (#1277037)

Sinon je vois pas ce que cet article apporte au debat BnetD

Pas grand chose, c'est plutôt ce que ça apporte à Wired. :)
Je croyais Wired un journal assez sérieux, apparement ce n'est pas vraiment le cas.