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To my knowledge they are fully reverse-engineered, which makes Blizzard occasionally going after servers for piracy even more infuriating.
by bytehowl 4y ago
To my knowledge they are fully reverse-engineered, which makes Blizzard occasionally going after servers for piracy even more infuriating.
- hgazx 4y agoEven if the code is completely new, you need a lot of copyrighted material to run a wow server.
- KptMarchewa 4y agoIsn't the copyrighted material in game client itself? Did WOW stream content back then?
- hgazx 4y agoPositions and names of NPCs, quest texts, encounter mechanics, texts said by NPCs, I think item names (not completely sure), etc are all stored in the server and are sent over the wire to the player from the server. That’s quite clearly a copyright violation.
- tmp_anon_22 4y agoAll the assets are usually pirated in private servers. Its very illegal and makes it difficult to host them from most countries.