Just curious as to legality....

[Rogean]

Originally Posted by Kaelon

I'm an intellectual property lawyer, and from having examined the EULA, I can say very confidently that you risk breach of contract, which is subject to civil fines, and statutory infringement of copyrighted material, which is subject to criminal prosecution. However, in the latter case, often the copyright holder has to bring charges against the individuals responsible.

Because EQemu is more of a hobby and not intended to compete with or even remotely replace EverQuest (because an average EverQuest server consists of numerous different machines hosting various zones to support thousands of players), it is unlikely that SOE would pursue litigation. However, if they begin to suspect willful (i.e., intentional) statutory fraud on the part of the EQemu developers, they could very well make valiant moves to shut them down.

Sorry, I must be blind... Where is the copyright infrigment?