to the best of my knowledge when we buy the cds we are buying a sngle user license. now, when we do this and we click i agree we are agreeing to the eula. now the only reason we are forced to click i agree every time is because verant/soe feels it neccesary to make there licensing agreement dynamic.
this works in their favor as it allows them to say almost anything they want to. since your clicking the i agree button your stating you agree with what there saying and placing yourself into the equivalent of a verbal contract stating you wont break the rules.
99% of us use something similar at least to eqw or some other way to start eq. but most of us still click i agree so in that respect we are breaking are contract with soe. however that contract is not to the best of my knowledge legally binding as the burden of proof is on the side of soe to prove that you clicked i agree.
keep in mind its entirely possible to edit the eula.txt to say whatever you want so long as you dont patch i.e "i agree to eat twinkies and have sex with gnome chicks"
so legally with keeping in mind we only have a single user license agreement and remembering that we CANNOT distribute there software we are or should remain perfectly ok. the only thing that soe can really do is try to lock up the emu project in a biased court litigation process to drain the coffers of the emu. kinda like what ended up happening to napster and a few of the other ptp share progs.
anyhow thats my two cents please feel free to correct me. id love to be wholly right but if im wrong....well shite happens
gnite