Ghazkhull

Anhai, I don't know the actual laws, either, but I'm fairly certain that c&d letters on their own have no legal bearing. They're more or less scare tactics to make somebody stop doing whatever. If they are routinely ignored, however, then legal discourse could start. Nobody will go to jail, but people can certainly be sued. If Nost devs said, "Nope. We're not shutting down," then Blizz would go after the hosting company... and that just what Blizz did. source: http://forum.nostalrius.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=42654

Good. Please don't. You've already shown that you have nothing but insults to replace actual conversational skills with. As a matter of fact, I humbly request that you don't touch any of my posts with any length poles. You bring nothing of value to the conversation.

Well, at least you said something of substance, even if it's a little incorrect, in my eyes. Molten WoW has been up for 5 years for two reasons; 1) few people know about it (relatively speaking) and, 2) due to #1, not many people talk about it, let alone media channels (YouTubers, gaming sites, etc). Same goes for Dalaran-WoW. So few people there that there's no buzz. That helps it stay under the radar. This is the same reason that so many garage bands and niche DJs are so good. They've not been tainted by the general public. Plus, Molten WoW, from what my friends have told me, was utter shite. Buggy, hackers, and poor performance. I never played there, true, but that's largely why I didn't. Nostalrius was shut down because they became huge. Popular. More people played there than almost all of the other "big" private servers combined. Blizz can't let something that is growing so large exist. Just having it there makes it grow larger and larger. If Blizz is hearing about it, Blizz is going to stop it. They HAVE to, in order to keep their IP intact. Law states that they must vigorously defend their IP, so they will and they do. You said servers don't have to comply with c&d letters. You said Nost didn't have to, but they chose to. You're only technically correct. If you don't comply with c&d letters, you may face consequences. Nothing out there is stopping you from robbing a bank, but the law says you're not allowed. If you do, you will be hunted down and prosecuted. ----------------- As for your other comments, my original post was most certainly not a mistake. PErhaps I could've chosen to use better verbiage, but I fully intended to type what I typed. Sound mind and body. Secondly, nowhere on this website have I ever called anyone an idiot. I expressed my views and I was received with insults. I find it interesting that you see me as the aggressor there. Last, when I said, "...many months," I was talking about nearly a year. 10 months, or so.

I played on Nost for MANY months. I understand perfectly how things work. Clearly, you (being in, what, 8th grade?) do not understand how life works. To you, it all works on insults and belittling people that you disagree with, instead of attempting to have a discussion. You jump to conclusions, make an all-encompassing generalization, and hurl insults, all in one uninformed reply to a post. Stereotypical millennial tween. My point, hyperbole aside, was that Blizz certainly knows about this effort. They certainly know that they can shut it down effortlessly, since it's all hosted in the same country. There's far too much coverage about this for it to hide in the shadows for long. Nostalrius lasted for so long because nobody was talking about it for a very. Long. Time. Once it started getting popular and people started reporting about it, Blizz caught wind and... well... here we are.

Not to be the killjoy here, but... With all the fan fare and hoopla around this Elysium/Nost project, does anyone really think this will last more than a month? Does anyone HONESTLY believe that Blizzard hasn't been policing the Nost site and does anyone really think that they don't know about this project? Why is everyone getting so amped up about this when it's sure to be shut down in no time by Blizz legal.