with all these continuing ddos attacks why hasn't law enforcement been brought to bare?
im sorry for 4mths straight mths now all we hear is ddos attack over and over and still no one has called law enforcement?> really?
if law enforcement has not been called I seriously question the ddos attacks
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with all these dos attacks
Edited: December 14, 2015
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You forget that we're a private server, but before that we're also a company. Why would you call the police when you have no idea of who could be behind these attacks? These attacks are done by some *****s out there who most likely run other private servers, their reason is a stupid as the attack itself, they're either jealous or just want to "take down" the realms so Warmane's players split up among those other private servers.
It's way more expensive to deal with this calling the police than just doing your best job to hold these attacks at bay, do you really think that companies always go to the police when they get DDoSed? Let me answer this question, no, it's expensive on it's own way (time, money, work, people).
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that would be the equivalent of a drug dealer calling the cops because someone stole his drugs.
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I don't think a private server is as bad or even illegal. Do you think Blizzard is that stupid and doesn't know about this server? They know and I'm almost 100% sure there's some sort of deal between the companies.
A ddos attack is not like a robbery. It's some fat kid that more or less forces the devs or whoever deals with this do their job and not sleep at work. In the grand scheme of the server, it's just an annoyance that won't go away just yet.
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Yeah.. lmao..
They know alright, but do you think they give a fvck about outdated content? If they really wanted, this server would be history long time ago. It will live untill someone discovers that Warmane staff is gaining significant amounts of money (not stating they are) (something like Peyton did) and the story will come to an end.
They probably lol at the coding quality tho, having Warmane as an example for interns how not to code.
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Made my day lol,
but I believe we still have the "great warmane wall" that holds ddos attacks quite well.
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Yes, Warmane does, but people gonna **** talk anyway. Apparently it's the cool thing to do nowadays.
@Thread, why should they bother with that? Waste of time and effort just to get involved in controversy.
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So, who exactly is behind those attacks? - Is it Mikayil Mammadov aka Hermes behind those attacks? - If so, why hasn't he been arrested?
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private servers are illegal, blizzard just doesn't seem to care. my point was it would be stupid to get the cops involved when what your doing isn't legal in the first place.
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Technically speaking, there is a difference between illegal and being against Blizzard's TOS.
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using other peoples copyrighted property to make money is illegal is most places i know of. something else about intellectual property as well, didnt read a whole lot into it tbh.
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Private servers are illegal as much as are cracked CS:GO, CoD, BF servers.. but Activision, EA, Blizzard, Valve don't care that much since you don't have all the benefits a valid copy of the game has. That's why they invented stuff like RSSC, Steam, BattleNet, Origin etc.. the real money is in the multiplayer, not singleplayer.
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Guys, one thing you're forgetting is that Warmane doesn't distribute or sell the GAME itself. They sell the services to play on it's servers which can be used for WoW.
What Intellectual property? That would be like saying that the website and programs that run these servers were made by Blizzard, and in fact, they weren't. The use of images on other hand could be an issue if you do not give any copyright, same as distributing the game but they're just distributing a Blizzard's outdated game without saying it's theirs. So in fact, they're not selling nothing that could affect Blizzard's company. Warmane doesn't sell stuff, they accept donations which in fact are... donations?), they provide links to download something that Blizzard does provide links too (Blizzard lets you freely download Wow, but there are layers that stop you from playing if you don't buy the game), all this means that they're not infricting any intellectual property law.
Peyton's case was dealed very differently, Blizzard took that case because they knew they could've won on the short-time, but people that run private servers have learned how to "evade" Peyton's mistakes what makes it quite hard for Blizzard to take any legal action which wouldn't be pricey and would lead to a very long and stupid case without having it clear that they can win.
Private servers also promote playing WoW to certain point and somehow works as free publicity for them, which could've another reason for why Blizzard doesn't take legal actions.
Please, do not take this comments from me as something that is happening but my opinion about what could've happening.
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The main problem is not the grey area status of the Private Servers (Yes Blizz knows. But Blizz allows it because it brings them some revenue in the form of a player trying out the private servers and then switching to retail.) but the way law enforcement works. These DDoS attackers are most likely not from the same continent as Kear or Edifice or Arlequina .... thus Law enforcements needs to trace and chase cross country to take care of the issue and by the time they do anything (IF do anything at all ... its a wild goose chase) ... the attackers can relocate and continue their attacks.
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Regardless of the legalities of a DDoS attack, they are (relatively) rarely reported and even less often looked into. Finding the source is a lot harder than just looking at who sent the data, it takes a lot of effort.
