The absurdity of the last comment notwithstanding, the rest of you guys seems to have some good questions and some interest in this.
Being the guy that the above linked Cinemablend article is about, I'd like to toss in my 2 cents here. First, I wasn't cheating. Period. No, I can't prove it, but I don't need to. I'll tell you guys the same thing I told Blizzard. I don't care if they lift the ban on my account or not. The fact of the matter is, I only played for a week and a half, and I only paid $10 for the D3 client at Toys R Us. I didn't lose that much.
The point is, I'd like to continue playing D3. I'll go buy another copy for $10 if necessary. I liked the game though. It was fun and mindless. Windows is not an option for me, as I don't own a copy. That being said, there are lots of people that play D3 on Linux. At least 30k that use the one distribution of Wine known as PlayOnLinux. Who knows how many there are total? 100k? I don't know, but I do know that it's a non-trivial number of people, and they're all running the risk of getting banned every day because Blizzard refuses to admit that there's a problem.
It might not even be their problem! Maybe Wine is doing something crazy. Regardless, they have publicly stated that running D3 on Linux will not get you banned, and they're wrong. I want to play the game again, with or without my old account, but I can't because I'm not going to take the chance of getting banned again. Maybe this time I'll have 200 hours in the game before they ban me. No, I don't think so.
The non-technical problem exists with Blizzard, period. They won't admit that there's a chance that Warden auto-banned some undeserving people. Maybe it's an issue with Warden; maybe it's not. Either way, they're hiding behind the premise that Warden is infallible. That's insanity, and anybody that passed a first year CS course in college knows it.
