![]() ![]() ![]() "Why are random people on the internet writing articles saying I did it in 'protest' of Diablo Immortal or that I was an 'angry fan?' I don't even play Diablo." "I made the website a long time before Diablo Immortal was announced," he said. The post quickly blew up and reached the front page of Reddit, where the thread filled with comments like "Blizzard is freaking salty" and "tell them to get fucked." For many, this looked like Blizzard desperately trying to do damage control and silence criticism.īut Zein never wanted to be on the front lines of a war against Blizzard in the first place-and he certainly didn't want to be a martyr. Naturally, this has only stoked the flames of outrage. "Because they couldn’t see a reason I’d keep the domain except for commercial purposes." "They asked to take down the redirect and tried to get me to transfer the domain over to Blizzard," Zein wrote in a post to the Path of Exile subreddit explaining the situation. ![]() It would seem that, by offering to sell the domain to this unknown buyer, Zein proved his intent to profit from Diablo's trademark. ![]() Shortly after, Zein received an email from Blizzard's lawyers informing him that he was infringing upon their copyright and committing an act of cybersquatting-buying website domains containing someone else's trademark in the attempt to profit from them. But, apparently, that was just all just a ruse. "I entertained his email with an 'I might' response," Zein told me. Yesterday, though, Zein received an email from "some guy who used Diablo fan forums" offering to buy the domain. ![]()
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