Blizzard: Allowing pirate WoW servers would “damage [our] rights”
Found on Ars Technica on Tuesday, 26 April 2016
Weeks after forcing the shutdown of a popular, fan-run "pirate" server that ran a classic version of World of Warcraft, Blizzard now says it basically had no choice but to go after Nostalrius to protect its legal rights.
In his post, Brack goes on to say that Blizzard has looked into running a Nostalrius-style "classic" server on its own, but that "none could be executed without great difficulty. If we could push a button and all of this would be created, we would. However, there are tremendous operational challenges to integrating classic servers, not to mention the ongoing support of multiple live versions for every aspect of WoW."
Funny how a couple of fans have more knowledge about WoW servers than Blizzard and were able to maintain it for years, for hundreds of thousands of users. Blizzard could simply give Nostalrius a special license and all would be good. Fans would be happy, legal rights would be protected.