Early Work on Homebrew StarCraft for the DS

Via Buttonmashing, news of early work on a homebrew project to port Blizzard's StarCraft to the Nintendo DS. "Since no official plans were ever announced from Blizzard, two French homebrew developers have taken it upon themselves to create a port of the popular PC game, StarCraft, for the Nintendo DS, calling it StarLite. Because they've only been working for three weeks, the game is a bit limited right now and still needs a lot of work."

Is this legal?

[Mongoose Disciple]

Not that I don't love Starcraft and wouldn't love to see it find new life on other platforms, but isn't this a cease and desist waiting to happen?

Re:bad idea

[dunezone]

Yeah, but you would be playing against other people on the DS. This would be really cool to play against a friend on a long plane or car trip.

Re:Is this legal?

[Goldberg's Pants]

Yes. After all America didn't go after DVD Jon... America wasn't behind The Pirate Bay being raided... That must have been my imagination.

When will people wake up and realise that what is ACTUALLY illegal is irrelevant, it's who has the most money that gets "justice." because they know they can bankrupt the individual, whether they're right or wrong. Not to mention the fact they're not in the US is also irrelevant as Vivendi, the owners of Blizzard and all their lovely trademarks, are a FRENCH COMPANY, and the people doing this are FRENCH.

Re:Is this legal?

[aeschenkarnos]

No, he's not. What they'll do is re-write the underlying program, and the user will have to load the graphic files from a StarCraft CD, theoretically a genuine one. Thus nothing copyright to Blizzard is actually distributed by these guys.