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Saturday Afternoon
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Saturday, 23-February-2002 14:32:56 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Game developers Blizzard have upset quite a few people over the last few days. Apparently, they invoked the DMCA law to shut down bnetd, a website and server system that parallels their own "Battle.net", allowing people to play their multiplayer games without using Blizzard's own servers. From that website: Blizzard's claim is that because bnetd doesn't and can't impliment the CD-KEY check, which battle.net servers do, that we are circumventing their online piracy checks, and encouraging people to pirate their CD-KEY protected games. Sounds fair enough, but maybe sharing the CD-KEY checking code would be a better option than whipping out the corporate lawyers.. unless they're concerned that would allow people to generate false keys. Anwyay, bnetd is an open-source project and hence has strong community support. Michael was first with the news but plenty of others followed, some with promises to boycott Blizzard's future products. There's a thread with more info here. I've even heard from one Sydney-based retailer who, despite Blizzard's DiabloII product and add-ons being their biggest selling games, will no longer be stocking or selling any Blizzard products due to this action.
Nice watercooled system in the PCDB from Nobes.
Interesting article from Deus_Horribilus sbout a system designed to get around internet censorship by distributing content to non-censored sites. The system aims to allow unrestricted anonymous internet access to people inside countries who's Governments heavily censor what can and can't be accessed such as China and Saudi Arabia.
AMD's "Hammer" processors have come one step closer with the release of the AMD-8000 series chipsets which are intended to support the new CPU's, thanks Mr Grimm.
Accelenation wonder if unlocking an AthlonXP is as simple as some suggest.
MrW notes that WinXP PowerToys have been delayed again.
Apparently a big problem with clustering macs is that they're the wrong shape and can't be rackmounted..
I don't normally link this stuff as it's been done a zillion times and it's not really content in my view.. but a heap of people have sent this one in so why not: these people have discovered how to remove the multiplier lock from an Intel CPU.. with a hammer. Now that you've caught me in a "compromising my principles" mood, here's some people destroying some speakers, too. :)
Reviews:
OCZ PC3000 DDR366 RAM on PCStats.
Lacie 60GB External Firewire HDD on Tweakers.
Intel Xeon processor on Digit-Life.
Tin-Coated Fan Bracket on G3D.
Tualatin-core Celeron CPU on Bench-House.
Antec SX1240 fulltower case on TweakTown.
Thermaltake P4 Tiny Fin P4 cooler on Viperlair.
Compex Wireless Broadband Gateway on HotHardware.
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