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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 12:58 PM EST |
>I am almost positive that those who were banned were
doing something they shouldn't have.
Based on what you say, you have inadequate cause for your positivity.
All you can say is that the _other_ Linux users are doing something which (1)
you aren't doing, and (2) is not recognized by the Blizzard-dongle. But the
whole point of Linux is that you can do many things without anyone else's
permission--not the system builder, not the OS programmer, not the
Muffin-in-charge-of-suppressing-Non-Iranian-Cookies.
There's no way the Blizzard folk can recognize all the legitimate
(non-Blizzard-related) Linux activities. I can't imagine any such
legitimacy-checker not throwing off frequent false positives--just like, say,
McAfee virus-checker, where every new version has to be checked against a long
list of common commercial products. And you know what happens when those checks
aren't run, because every year the trade rags have headlines like "McAfee
tags Windows Media Player/Quickbooks/Adobe Reader/whatever as virus".
The difference is, when McAfee makes a mistake like that, they put out a new
version of the virus checker that whitelists the commercial program.
And when Blizzard makes a mistake like that, they put out a new version of the
press release denying that such a mistake could have happened.
I don't know whether any of these players were or were not cheating. But when
Blizzard says they know that all the players were cheating, I am _positive_ THAT
is a lie.
And I'm strongly inclined to believe that at least some of the players were
probably not cheating, because why would they call themselves to Blizzard's
attention by going public, if they really were cheating?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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