Because they find out it was too hard to target individual people so they are now working with ISP to stop illegal downloads (ie : ISP throttling peer2peer file sharing)
Because there are lots of people downloading lots of illegal software and data, a few people downloading a bit more than the rest isn't important enough for companies to go after them.
HAHAHAHA i cant believe someone reported that... and thanks Falkoner. It seems like the government is decently slacking in enforcing those ordeals. We have traffic cameras for the highways and people get flag all the time, they ignore it and never get penalized.
Another thought, how can you honestly tell who is pirating and who is not? There is plenty of honest peer-to-peer sharing, I download Linux distros via torrent all the time, it's a smarter way of using your bandwidth, however, as authorities begin to crack down on "piracy", they also cause problems with honest peer-to-peer transactions.
Honestly, the problem is that no ISPs keep track of enough data to see that you're truly pirating, and of course, they have good reason not to, it's expensive and hard to store that much data.
EDIT: Wow, I just used variations of the word "honest" three times...
HAHAHAHA i cant believe someone reported that... and thanks Falkoner. It seems like the government is decently slacking in enforcing those ordeals. We have traffic cameras for the highways and people get flag all the time, they ignore it and never get penalized.
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Another thought, how can you honestly tell who is pirating and who is not? There is plenty of honest peer-to-peer sharing, I download Linux distros via torrent all the time, it's a smarter way of using your bandwidth, however, as authorities begin to crack down on "piracy", they also cause problems with honest peer-to-peer transactions.
Honestly, the problem is that no ISPs keep track of enough data to see that you're truly pirating, and of course, they have good reason not to, it's expensive and hard to store that much data.
EDIT: Wow, I just used variations of the word "honest" three times...
I dont get it... So if there is more PtP it is harder to track, or are you saying that legal PtP is something they are having trouble keeping a hold of?
I tried to google "Linux distros" and i didnt get it, lol what is it Falkoner?
I tried to google "Linux distros" and i didnt get it, lol what is it Falkoner?
Linux distributions, distros for short, such as Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, and any other flavor of Linux you can think of.
I'm saying that it's hard to tell the difference between legal and non-legal downloads, however, since so many illegal downloads are done via peer-to-peer, ISPs assume that whenever upload and download speeds go up at the same time that you are downloading illegally, so they throttle your download, regardless of whether you are actually doing illegal activities.
Ultraviolet -- I suppose we'll likely never know, but my guess would be that they already saw it operating successfully and there was no monetary incentive to finish the original work. And the dev cycle in old school Blizzard was so hectic, it's possible it just got forgotten about after the original game got released. Plus there's an element of existing MPQ files that were packaged with the original discs becoming outdated if they updated it. And it's not like they remade the original MPQs, they just made new ones for BW specifically
[04:26 am]
Oh_Man -- so that makes me think maybe the theory they are unfinished is not true and its a deliberate design decision, coz why not finish them wen ur making brood war?
[04:25 am]
Oh_Man -- the thing is thos buildings are from classic. that means they went ahead and made brood war without ever finishing the 'unfinished' buildings
[06:15 pm]
Ultraviolet -- Yeah he's talked about a lot of that stuff in his casts before. It seems plausible. Especially knowing how Blizzard of yesteryear operated.
[2026-6-20. : 3:47 pm]
NudeRaider -- to clarify: couldn't recall the behavior for every single Protoss building but I was aware the disparity exists.
[2026-6-20. : 3:43 pm]
NudeRaider -- Contained nothing new for me. Didn't know all building's behavior, but very much all unit's. Also Terran balance whine - also nothing new
[2026-6-19. : 9:57 am]
Oh_Man -- makes me wonder if SEN knows anything about the topic