The patcher will download the files for you, with sonys permission wether they want you to or not
So ? that doesn't make it legal to do so. You can use a gun to rob a bank. Doesn't mean its legal to because you can. Again read the licencing agreement. If you are not using the software as per the licensing agreement then you are in violation of it and subject to the same exact legal problems as if you downloaded files that weren't supposed to be downloaded using the patcher.
Your not going to win this argument from me because they are legally the same. If you want to make one illegal and the other not to help you sleep better at night then so be it. If you want to pretend they are different so laywers don't come close down your board then your fooling yourself. The fact is that if Sony really wanted to close this board down they could unless it is hosted outside the US and even then they probably could. The fact that the emulator code does not include any game data is probably the only thing that keeps it from being illegal. If they bundled the database with it then it would probably be illegal. This board provides the databases and instructions for using em. The data captured from eqlive more then likely is protected intellectual property and subject to all those nasty copyright laws. It would take Sony lawyers about three seconds to see all the spawns and quests stolen word for word from eqlive and sue you back into your mommy's basement if they wanted. By providing the databases and instructions for using them the board already is over the line. Making phoney judgement calls about some topics being 'warez' is just asinine besides having nothing to do with what warez actually are.
I was able to find the information before there was even a reply to my post so you don't need to worry about what people on this board will tell me or not.
@kathgar You really don't understand software licensing at all if you think patches are a 'service you paid for when you bought the game'
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