IMO Blizz should just update
7/15/2009 Music Distribution through UI Add-Ons
We have recently seen a number of User Interface Add-Ons that are making modifications to the World of Warcraft in-game music files and wanted to take a moment to go over some important points with the community in connection with this. While we are currently allowing Add-Ons that remove or replace existing sound files, keep in mind that it is illegal to distribute copyrighted materials, in this case in-game music and audio files, without authori…
To ban password walling too, require open downloads. It’s arguable they do. But being explicit would de-facto put overwolf back where it belongs: in a dumpster.
Also prior discussion:
TL;DR: A company notorious for its ad-riddled client, which recently bought out CurseForge (formerly owned by Twitch), is trying to completely monopolize WoW addon management by trying to shut down or otherwise block API access for any of its far more convenient competitors, such as CurseBreaker and wowup.io and thus force anyone wanting to update addons to install their client.
So Wowhead recently highlighted what Overwolf - the new owners of CurseForge, which was previously owned by Twitch - …