Addon Development

[Rathotdog]

Are those real CnD from Blizzard's lawyers?

Why would Blizzard go after GitHub contributors, instead of.. idk Ravencraft, who is both on Discord and also using cloudflare?

Seeing as Microsoft owns Github

Oh, didn't realise that.

All hail the technocratic overlords

[Peter]

These cease and desist letters are almost certainly fake. These people need to publicize the letters so the community can take a look at them.

But they are almost certainly fake because (1) as far as I know, no private server addon developers have ever received anything like this before and (2) GitHub hosts tons of similar software that never gets taken down, like windows activators, tools that rip videos and things from copyrighted sites, etc.

Of course it's possible that blizz might try to go after these random little addons, but it's exceedingly unlikely, and to me points solidly to the idea that these are faked by whoever is behind the ddos and they should not be taken seriously.

Again, these letters just need to be publicized and shared. There is no legal consequence to doing so

[Raerity]

These cease and desist letters are almost certainly fake. These people need to publicize the letters so the community can take a look at them.

But they are almost certainly fake because (1) as far as I know, no private server addon developers have ever received anything like this before and (2) GitHub hosts tons of similar software that never gets taken down, like windows activators, tools that rip videos and things from copyrighted sites, etc.

Of course it's possible that blizz might try to go after these random little addons, but it's exceedingly unlikely, and to me points solidly to the idea that these are faked by whoever is behind the ddos and they should not be taken seriously.

Again, these letters just need to be publicized and shared. There is no legal consequence to doing so

They did go after Shagu. I guess they thought he worked for Turtlewow, but they certainly went after him regardless

[Ramune]

GitHub hosts tons of similar software that never gets taken down, like windows activators, tools that rip videos and things from copyrighted sites, etc.

Yes, it still hosts, but there are also tons of projects that were taken down, DMCA'ed and C&D'ed. Github (and Discord also, by the way) should never be used for anything related to piracy, it will be taken down sooner or later. So many great projects from various scenes perished there, music ripping, emulators, manga/anime tools and so on.

[Spring]

They ddos'd q'thun right as the blizz con main event started you can't make this shit up.

[Kestrel]

Are those real CnD from Blizzard's lawyers?

Why would Blizzard go after GitHub contributors, instead of.. idk Ravencraft, who is both on Discord and also using cloudflare?

Because they know that they can get away with it, just like they did when they sent one to Shagu over a year ago.

Both the OctoWoW team and some developers have done some validation and they appear to be legitimate, but of course without publicly releasing it that is hard to fully verify. We don't have the authorization to release any of them ourselves and recognize the legal risk that would come with publicizing any individuals C&D.

We would not know if they did go after another private server as the likely outcome of that would be them silently continuing for months if not over a year before any public court filings were made.

[Kestrel]

well I'm trying to get it on octo git but nobody as help me with my problem ... made this post 4 days ago

https://octowow.st/forum/viewtopic.php?t=968

"Same here, just made an account and I got this message.

"Sign-In Prohibited
Your account is prohibited from signing in. Please contact your site administrator."

Username: jKalfis"

I cannot sign-in in the octowow git.

Unfortunately we have had an issue with spam bots on the Gitea instance and have had to manually approve new accounts. We just did another batch of approvals but if anyone is unapproved they are always welcome to DM me on the forums or email us at octowow@proton.me (although we are behind on our emails at the moment).

[Zeid]

Had a feeling it all pointed back to Blizz. Big company can hide behind multiple layers of plausible deniability when doing something illegal.

[Rocksmash]

Orange, applesauce, Fruit roll ups, Octowow, Bologna. these are all things I am devoted to defending <3 <3 <3

[Ciggitybutts]

Had a feeling it all pointed back to Blizz. Big company can hide behind multiple layers of plausible deniability when doing something illegal.

They do a whole lot more then that you sweet innocent thing.