Blizzard tests the reach of copyright law

Free software users rarely, if ever, need to be concerned about the license that governs the applications they use. Unlike developers or distributors, users are unlikely to pay attention to whether a program is released under a BSD, GPL, or some other license—not so with proprietary software. If Blizzard Entertainment has its way, it could get a whole lot worse, with proprietary vendors controlling the behavior of its users and enforcing it by way of the Copyright Act. Click below (subscribers only) for the full article.

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