Comments on: StarCraft Brood War Spawn Howto http://frem.wordpress.com/2006/01/31/starcraft-brood-war-spawn-howto/ moving forward. in theory. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:02:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: James http://frem.wordpress.com/2006/01/31/starcraft-brood-war-spawn-howto/#comment-5996 James Mon, 08 Oct 2007 04:53:19 +0000 http://frem.wordpress.com/2006/01/31/starcraft-brood-war-spawn-howto/#comment-5996 Note to unpublished Anonymous Coward: Yes, it's a pain. Other posters have already said what you said in less detail. Please be at least somewhat more creative. I said legal. The point is to play within Blizzard's set of rules and stay within the spirit of the law. According to an email I received from Blizzard's customer support, the only legal way to play the game on battle.net is to play the game using a physical cdrom. As of six months ago, I was unable to find anything which could be interpreted like that in their ELUA or <a href="http://www.battle.net/tou.shtml" rel="nofollow">TOS</a>. Note to unpublished Anonymous Coward:

Yes, it’s a pain. Other posters have already said what you said in less detail. Please be at least somewhat more creative. I said legal. The point is to play within Blizzard’s set of rules and stay within the spirit of the law.

According to an email I received from Blizzard’s customer support, the only legal way to play the game on battle.net is to play the game using a physical cdrom. As of six months ago, I was unable to find anything which could be interpreted like that in their ELUA or TOS.

]]> By: James http://frem.wordpress.com/2006/01/31/starcraft-brood-war-spawn-howto/#comment-4047 James Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:17:34 +0000 http://frem.wordpress.com/2006/01/31/starcraft-brood-war-spawn-howto/#comment-4047 You can do it that way, but I seriously doubt Blizzard would approve. My method doesn't actually go against the DMCA. ;-) This topic seems to interest people, my BroodWars CD was stolen recently, and IANAL, so I'll see what sort of further fun and games I can shake up in a future post. You can do it that way, but I seriously doubt Blizzard would approve. My method doesn’t actually go against the DMCA. ;-)

This topic seems to interest people, my BroodWars CD was stolen recently, and IANAL, so I’ll see what sort of further fun and games I can shake up in a future post.

]]> By: CookieOrc http://frem.wordpress.com/2006/01/31/starcraft-brood-war-spawn-howto/#comment-4034 CookieOrc Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:22:56 +0000 http://frem.wordpress.com/2006/01/31/starcraft-brood-war-spawn-howto/#comment-4034 What I ment when I said that StarCraft does not generate much traffic is the fact that it will not slow game play when there are 4 or so users on a 1000Mb switch even a simple 100Mb switch to affect game play (generate lag). What I ment when I said that StarCraft does not generate much traffic is the fact that it will not slow game play when there are 4 or so users on a 1000Mb switch even a simple 100Mb switch to affect game play (generate lag).

]]> By: CookieOrc http://frem.wordpress.com/2006/01/31/starcraft-brood-war-spawn-howto/#comment-4033 CookieOrc Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:20:22 +0000 http://frem.wordpress.com/2006/01/31/starcraft-brood-war-spawn-howto/#comment-4033 Why not just make an image of the cd and have one person host it? Then all you have to do is use somthing like Daemon tools... They could even run the image off the host computer I doubt StarCraft generated that much network traffic... Why not just make an image of the cd and have one person host it?
Then all you have to do is use somthing like Daemon tools… They could even run the image off the host computer I doubt StarCraft generated that much network traffic…

]]> By: James http://frem.wordpress.com/2006/01/31/starcraft-brood-war-spawn-howto/#comment-3830 James Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:53:26 +0000 http://frem.wordpress.com/2006/01/31/starcraft-brood-war-spawn-howto/#comment-3830 I love these sorts of comments. Sometimes I delete them. Sometimes I mock them. Today, I have decided to reply civilly. My dear Jajajaja, Your comment is incoherent to the point of being nearly illegable. Allow me to translate and counterpoint for our audiance. <i>Why would you spawn BroodWar if you can't use it on Battle.net?</i> Obviously, you've never hosted a LAN party. <i>You can play LAN games even if four computers have the same CD KEY with no spawn on LAN.</i> Yes, I am aware of that. This method wouldn't work otherwise. The problem is not the CD KEY on LAN, the problem is that they all need BroodWar CDs. In case you haven't read your ELUA recently, you are only allowed to make copies of the CD for backup purposes. Also, please adopt a more coherent writing style. Think of the children, man. I love these sorts of comments. Sometimes I delete them. Sometimes I mock them. Today, I have decided to reply civilly.

My dear Jajajaja,
Your comment is incoherent to the point of being nearly illegable. Allow me to translate and counterpoint for our audiance.

Why would you spawn BroodWar if you can’t use it on Battle.net?
Obviously, you’ve never hosted a LAN party.

You can play LAN games even if four computers have the same CD KEY with no spawn on LAN.
Yes, I am aware of that. This method wouldn’t work otherwise. The problem is not the CD KEY on LAN, the problem is that they all need BroodWar CDs. In case you haven’t read your ELUA recently, you are only allowed to make copies of the CD for backup purposes.

Also, please adopt a more coherent writing style. Think of the children, man.

]]> By: jajajaja http://frem.wordpress.com/2006/01/31/starcraft-brood-war-spawn-howto/#comment-3715 jajajaja Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:09:56 +0000 http://frem.wordpress.com/2006/01/31/starcraft-brood-war-spawn-howto/#comment-3715 dude your so stupid omg AHAHAHAH!!! why would u spawn a brood war if you cant get on b.net ahahahah what an idiot dude u can play lan even if 4 computers had the same cd key with no problem with no spawn on lan , only b.net checks the cd key ahahahahajajaja broodwar spawn ahaha~~~!!! ;) good 1 dude your so stupid omg AHAHAHAH!!! why would u spawn a brood war if you cant get on b.net ahahahah what an idiot dude u can play lan even if 4 computers had the same cd key with no problem with no spawn on lan , only b.net checks the cd key ahahahahajajaja broodwar spawn ahaha~~~!!! ;) good 1

]]> By: denel http://frem.wordpress.com/2006/01/31/starcraft-brood-war-spawn-howto/#comment-139 denel Tue, 08 Aug 2006 06:48:41 +0000 http://frem.wordpress.com/2006/01/31/starcraft-brood-war-spawn-howto/#comment-139 Horray for encouraging multiplayer Starcraft! Horray for encouraging multiplayer Starcraft!

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