[maveren]

the battlenet client wasn't altered at all for people to connect to the emulated servers?
As far as I know from playing many Bliz games is that you dont need a server emulator to play any Bliz games on a private Lan or to host your own private server. The Bliz games that im familiar with have there own emulated versions of the server software within the installed package. So its a long shot for me to say this but, Im guessing the developers of that particular software are doing a little bit more than we are at EQEMu.
furthermore, unlike battle.net, if u make a character in a EQEMu servers you can't transfer it to Live after you geared them as you desire. Hence what we are doing isnt violating the integrity of the paid for services.

THIS AGREEMENT DESCRIBES TEH TERMS ON WHICH SONY ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT INC. ("SOE") OFFERS YOU ACCESS TO AN ACCOUNT (THE "ACCOUNT") TO PLAY THE EVERQUEST FANTASY ONLINE ROLE PLAYING COMPUTER GAME AND ANY EXPANSION PACKS (INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELY, THE "GAME")

GAME = Account, Game, and Expansions (Individually and collectively)

7. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, we hereby grant to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the software solely in connection with playing the Game via an authorized and fully-paid Account. You may not copy (except to make one necessary back-up copy), distribute, sell, auction, rent, lease, loan, modify or create derivative works, adapt, translate, perform, display, sublicense or transfer all or any portion of the Software. You may not reverse engineer, disassemble or decompile the Software except to the extent that this restriction is expressly prohibited by applicable law.

no wrong there, btw derivative means to copy or alter software, such as imitating a client program. logically no harm in what we are doing because we are using the exact client, yet imitating the server.
this is where I had to ask Grandpa "Skeevy" Pete:

9. You may not use any third party software to modify the Software to change Game play. You may not create, facilitate, host, link to or provide an other means through which the Game may be played by others, such as through server emulators. You may not take any action which imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure. You may not buy, sell or auction (or host or facilitate the ability to allow others to buy, sell or acution) any Game characters, items, coin or copyrighted material.

Remember who is hosting the emulator and who is playing on it.
To host a server emulator, I at no time should ever have to click [I ACCEPT] to this EULA.
To play on an emulated server is a different story, but i dont see anything about playing violations, just create, facilitate, host, link to or providing.
Who paid for the software? Me
Have I changed the structure of the paid for software? No
If I emulate a server on another computer, do I at anytime ever see, or am subject to this EULA? No