Talk:Blizzard Downloader

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Possible violation

It may be against Blizzard's TOU to list methods of extracting the torrents out of the downloader as this might be considered an exploit. -- Fandyllic (talk · contr) 1:15 PM PST 25 Mar 2008

Here is the part of the TOU that seems relevant:

4. Limitations on Your Use of the Service.

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B. You agree that you will not (i) modify or cause to be modified any files that are a part of the Program or the Service; (ii) create or use cheats, bots, "mods", and/or hacks, or any other third-party software designed to modify the World of Warcraft experience; or (iii) use any third-party software that intercepts, "mines", or otherwise collects information from or through the Program or the Service.

-- Fandyllic (talk · contr) 1:18 PM PST 25 Mar 2008

I think that's reading a lot into it - that refers to game info, not patch torrents. Getting the torrent info afaik couldn't harm Blizzard in any way. Kirkburn  talk  contr 21:25, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, it was a borderline case, but I just wanted to get other people's opinions. I've never had any direct interaction with Blizzard on such matters, but maybe you have. I'll clear the tag. -- Fandyllic (talk · contr) 1:45 PM PST 25 Mar 2008

I haven't on this issue, but I've not heard any complaints about it. Kirkburn  talk  contr 21:53, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Torrent extraction doesn't work anymore?

For me "capnbry.net WowTorrentEx" doesn't work with the new 3.1 ptr patch - can anyone confirm? Dschiggs (talk) 15:55, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Correct Dschiggs, WoWTorrentEx doesn't work anymore since WoW 3.x but you can still extract the torrent manually, open the *downloader*.exe in a hex editor and copy from the asci part "d8:" (without quotes) to the end of the file (often ending with 4 or 5 null bytes), paste this is a new file called blabla.torrent and you got it (you have to make sure you have copied and pasted in hexadecimal not in ascii, do-able with an advanced text editor like Notepad++ / UltraEdit etc...) --Mera LaCroisadeEcarlate (talk) 16:30, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

I don't think this is correct. I just used WoWTorrentEx today and it worked just fine. I just had to rename the downloaded .exe files to WoW-*-downloader.exe (so since I had two, I named them WoW-1-downloader.exe and WoW-2-downloader.exe). Currently downloading the torrents now :) King0lag (talk) 23:53, 10 June 2009 (UTC)