IMHO, both sides are being bad (Score 1)

IMHO, BNetD is the single most threatening thing to blizzard's income from their current titles and any future titles that might be targettable by BNetD. Two reasons for this: 1: If major BNetD servers are fast enough and public enough, people that don't want to pay will play on BNetD servers, if they are legally able to run, instead of buying. 2: The Battle.net player base will fragment if players decide they can do better on BNetD servers, or play with non-BNet friends. BNet may lose critical mass. Then BNet will become less of an incentive to buy the game. I have no idea what morally ok purpose BNetD can serve as all the LANs I have been at have had 0 problems running WC3 or Diablo over TCP/IP, and anyone that wants to play over the net and doesn't want to connect to BNet because they can't spare the bandwidth or some other spurious reason, may use a VPN or many other means if they have problems. I'm not saying that what Blizzard did is good, I'm saying that the BNetD team's motivation is worse.