world of warcraft

It's time to stop playing Blizzard's fantastic MMO and move on with life.

OStatic: "Now that I've got your attention, don't worry too much: Blizzard Entertainment, the company behind the popular World of Warcraft online game, isn't trying to shut down open source software entirely.

But in a recent legal filing (reported by the Virtually Blind weblog), they are asking a judge to take an unusual move: prohibiting a developer from releasing a particular bit of code as open source."

One of the most common reactions when people first learn about Wikipedia is to wonder where people find the time to write millions of articles for free.

That's precisely the reaction Clay Shirky got (thanks to Luis Villa) from, ironically enough, a television producer.

Just after we discussed yet another bad situation involving bringing real world laws into virtual worlds involving World of Warcraft, it looks like there's an update on another such case we discussed last year.

In this case, it was a dispute between two members of Second Life, one of whom had "copied" items made by another and started selling them.

A few weeks back, we pointed to a ridiculous report from the federal government's Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, claiming that places like Second Life could be breeding grounds for terrorists.

Why Second Life as opposed to any standard web chat room?