RE: [dvd-discuss] Blizzard / Battlenet FAQ

[John Galt <galt(at)inconnu.isu.edu>]

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On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Scott A Crosby wrote:

>On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Michael A Rolenz wrote:
>
>> They still might have a theft of service argument because the the clones
>> are taking "service" away from the non clones...not saying that I'd buy it
>> but it may be their "legal theory" to try to use as a club over somepeople
>> who were smarter than they.
>>
>
>This is bullshit..
>
>If someone gives out, say, bar code scanners free to many people, where
>the software for those scanners connects the barcodes to their site for
>(say) UPC and other lookups.
>
>Then, assuming no prior contractual restrictions. (Are 'clickwrap
>licenses' contracts?)
>
>There's no way you can construe it as theft of service for me to set up a
>clone UPC code database and clone software that the scanners can use.

Ask Digital Convergence.  It seems that they disagree....

>Scott
>
>

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