It might be a legal issue- elsewhere, it's been mentioned that it is much easier to be in the clear operating private servers via existing LAN capabilities. Lawsuits have been sent to bnetd people and Battle.net 2.0 reversers.
Yeah, absolutely. They seem quite serious about preventing Battle.net emulation legally, and I'm sure that's a big reason why they eliminated LAN -- but if there's enough motivation, I doubt they can really succeed; nobody ever does. My opinion is that the best prophylaxis against private servers would be a really great built-in server.
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It might be a legal issue- elsewhere, it's been mentioned that it is much easier to be in the clear operating private servers via existing LAN capabilities. Lawsuits have been sent to bnetd people and Battle.net 2.0 reversers.
Yeah, absolutely. They seem quite serious about preventing Battle.net emulation legally, and I'm sure that's a big reason why they eliminated LAN -- but if there's enough motivation, I doubt they can really succeed; nobody ever does. My opinion is that the best prophylaxis against private servers would be a really great built-in server.