StarCraft 2: help us mourn the death of content freedom
StarCraft 2 comes with a powerful set of tools for making your own maps and game modifications, but there is no local storage; you have to upload your content to Battle.net and let users grab that content from Blizzard's servers. If your content is considered inappropriate or obscene, Blizzard can take it down. The story is making its way around the gaming press, but this shouldn't be a shock... gaming content has long fallen under the control of the company that created the tools.
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This outrage reminds me recent discussions about Apple's tight grip over its App Store. Apparently others realize as well that owning popular distribution platform can be very very profitable.
