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Blizzard annoyances
If you use Blizzard Downloader, you might see:
“There was a problem authenticating your download. Please go to http://www.blizzard.com/account to start a new download”
One of the reasons you might see this is this (see others): when you download the downloader, Blizzard embeds your IP address into the executable, and only lets you start the download from the same IP. This is terrible software design, and completely unnecessary to stop bandwidth leeches: just embed a unique key into the executable, and ignore the IP address.