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Tue
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Feb '05
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by Frank Spychalski filed under Fun
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2.E. You may not, whether intentionally or unintentionally, violate any applicable local, state, national or international law or regulation.
great, finally millions of geeks will observe the law, the world will become a better place thanks to WoW…
15.B. …Blizzard Entertainment has the right to obtain certain identification information about your computer and its operating system, including the identification numbers of your hard drives, central processing unit, IP addresses and operating systems, for identification purposes…
from the Blizzard privacy policy
With whom might we share your information?
As a general rule, Blizzard would not forward your information to a third party without your permission. However, we may divulge this data to third party vendors in response to a product order to add you to their commercial bulletin circulation list. In some cases, we can also disclose this information if our Licence Agreements have been violated or if, in all good faith, we judge it is legally justified.
I might be wrong, but to me this sounds very much like “we collect a lot of information and share it if we think it’s ok.”
Wow, has everybody already bought that thing?
no – haven’t bought it and won’t buy it…
World of Warcraft
Psycho hat in seinem Blog die Terms of use von World of Warcraft auseinander genommen. Fazit: Die das eigentlich B�se in Azeroth ist eine riesige Datenkrake namens Blizzard…
was 2. angeht: das is wohl normal weil z.B. punkbuster auf entsprechenden hashwerten basiert. sagte mir der absynth gerade.
Well, at least the second paragraph (with the hardware information stuff) is perfectly normal. AFAIK, any Punkbuster-based cheat protection software uses hashes of hardware information to identify unique users. Cheating Death and other proprietary solutions for Half-Life do that, too.
The first paragraph is hilarious indeed, and the third one is blatant – I didn’t expect otherwise from Blizzard.
just as a clarification: I won’t buy it because it’s just not my kind of game – not because of their EULA or privacy policy