>Plain and simple, EQEmu is NOT warez. If packet information >collected was intellectual property, then Magelo would not exist
Who said it was ? My point that telling someone how to change files in the eq directory to cause the patcher to download PoP files is not either. No more then changing them to point at someone elses server so you don't have to pay Sony any money. My thread was locked for being 'warez'. It had nothing to do with 'warez' Did you even read this thread or just skip to the end and add your two cents ?
The data from eqllive is so unique that it wouldn't take them three minutes in court to prove they were the sole creators of it and it was 'stolen' from them. Thats what copyrights are for. Do you belive if you record a song off the radio you now legally own it and can do whatever you want with it ? The whole point of my arguments is that to make a distinction on legality when your providing information that is clearly copyrighted (such as the databases) is hypocritical.
>By buying these I have legal right to download new files from >the patcher, regardless of whether or not I have an active >account
No no no no no.... You don't understand software licenses if you think this is true. You have no rights what so ever other then prescribed in the license, In fact, you don't even own the software under 99% of software licenses. You have only purchased the rights to use the software as prescribed under the license. Again EVERYTHING installed with the eq installer (inclucing eqhosts.txt) is covered. Take some time and actually read a couple of them. I think you'll be surprised. The thing is it is bad publicity and not cost effect for the companies to target individual violations or small companies (although this is changing as times get tougher). That is the only reason you don't see individuals not being held up on these things. They go after large companies that can pay the fines and nobody cares if they get screwed.
>Also it is CLIENT-SIDE, and VI cannot prevent me from doing >ANYTHING to ANY everquest file of mine on my machine.
They can withdraw the license to use the software which is pretty much what happens automatically when you break it. Again you obviously are confused about how software licensing works. Shit like this is why things like FSF and GNU were started. You have no real rights or ownership under most software licenses. Your not even legally allowed to transfer ownership in some cases. Its one of the things Sony used when trying to shut down the ebay crew. Sony proved they owned the data and the software. End of story.
|