In a move that should surprise no one, Blizzard filed a takedown notice the team running the Nostalrius Begins private server. Nostalrius was an extremely populated 1.12.1 WoW private server running a Blizzlike environment, refusing donations for everything except hosting costs.
The other day they posted on their website:
“Yesterday, we received a letter of formal notice from US and french lawyers, acting on behalf of Blizzard Entertainment, preparing to stand trial against our hosting company OVH and ourselves in less than a week now. This means the de facto end of Nostalrius under its current form.”
The Nost team hosted an AmA (ask me anything) thread on the World of Warcraft subreddit here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/4droz4/we_are_nostalrius_a_world_of_warcraft_fanmade/
More articles:
- http://kotaku.com/blizzard-shuts-down-fans-running-old-vanilla-wow-server-1769511691
- http://massivelyop.com/2016/04/06/blizzards-legal-threat-shuts-down-wow-emulator-nostalrius/
- http://www.gamespot.com/articles/blizzard-shuts-down-pirate-wow-server-that-doesnt-/1100-6438635/
- http://www.pcgamesn.com/world-of-warcraft/nostalrius-emulates-world-of-warcraft-as-it-was-a-decade-ago-and-blizzard-are-shutting-it-down-on-april-10
- http://www.slashgear.com/private-mmo-servers-a-grey-area-with-potential-07435372/
- http://www.actiontrip.com/news/blizzard-closing-world-of-warcraft-vanilla-server/040716_3
- http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-04-07-blizzard-closes-popular-vanilla-wow-nostalrius-pirate-servers
