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Today i remembered that Blizzard is working on Starcraft 2. I'm a huge starcraft fan and i wanted to check out how the development is going, and when the game will be released. As no release date is yet on site, i went to the movies page trying to download a few gameplay videos. I had a very bad surprise. You can only download the videos using blizzard's download app. They are using BitTorrent technology to spread their files via a proprietary app. Why on earth didn't they just placed a .torrent file so that Linux users could also download their content i don't really understand.

Download Blizzard movies with wine:

In a terminal open the .exe file downloaded from blizzard with wine (wine-0.9.53 on my Ubuntu 7.10 machine)

wine 1280_StarCraft2GameplayVideo_EnglishUS2-avi-downloader.exe

This will open the downloader and ask for the location where you want the file saved.


That's it.