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they are not ilegal
because server emulators are not ilegal, in any kind of game. Maybe except if you ask for a payment to play
Dimitrio Darkblade
Founder Leader of Vitae Essentia
http://www.veguild.org
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Your lack of knowledge astounds me. It's not legal. It will never be legal. Go to college.
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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
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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 any 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
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characters, items, coin or copyrighted material.
The full EULA can be found HERE hosted by S.O.E
Dimitrio Darkblade
Founder Leader of Vitae Essentia
http://www.veguild.org
I'm waiting for the pre-NGE SWG emulator to go live. I will use it despite any legal issues, and support it 100%. I hope they release free downloads for server creation so that people can run thier own SWG servers. I'd like to see SOE fight that. LOL, might get a nice server in eastern Europe where SOE can't do anything about it, I'd laught my ass off...
i dont think its a big deal. You are paying sony for access to thier game yes. But when you use outside servers for free it cost sony nothing to support you anymore as a player. You still buy sonys software, and alot of these servers change up the rules and what not to where its not evens sonys mechanics anymore.
We live in a time where modding games and creativity of the user is actually smiled upon, dont let corporate greed take that away.
It is not illegal to set up and emulated server as long as you have legally purchased the game software.
Violation of an EULA does not mean you have commited a crime. And this idea alone does not warrent any jail time and or fines
Running a free emu at this time is not really illegal, the games devolper could take actions against you and your isp to have the server shut down which in most cases the isp will do what they can to prevent you from running your emu wiouth causes other disturbances to your internet service.
Running or playing on a emu server can get you banned from any services offered by the company that legally holds the rights to the product and no refund will be given for services paid for in advance.
Charging people to play on an emu server is illegal. If you are making a profit the company can file a lawsuit against you for both copyright issues as well as try to claim and revenue you made of this server as lost revenue to them regarldes of your monthly charge.
Even asking people to donate, and offering benefits to the donaters can be considered running a p2p server as your are still offering certain services only to those who pay for them. I know alot of people running emu's like to ask for donations to cover server and bandwidth costs but this is technically illegal. I guess you could try to apply for non-profit status and only take donations up to the point to cover costs of operation but i highly doubt you could pull it off or it would hold up in court in a company decided to go after you.
Honestly though, you would have to be running one massive emu to get the attention of companies such as soe and blizzard to the point they would be willing to take legal action against you. the lawyers these companies have do not come cheap and they have more important things to do then worry about $1000 dollars a month loss when they are paying their lawyers that much a day to deal with other more important issues. This is assuming 90% of people who play emu's would not be playing on the official p2p server, or currently do play on them at the same time so regardless there are not missing much revenue.
Making and playing on an emu-server is NOT illegal in terms of criminal law, but it is illegal in terms of in-game law. In human terms, if you visit my house, and I tell you my house has a rule where you HAVE to take your shoes off and you dont, I CANT prosecute u and you cant go to jail. At best I can throw you out of my house, but thats it.
Theres nothing they can do if u r running a non-profit (in some countries maybe even with profit) emu-server. They will probably ban you from their servers, they probably ask for your posts to be deleted on a forum (as they do on MMORPG.COM), they MIGHT ask ISP who hosts your server's traffic to shut it down, but Im not sure if ISP will even reply due to privacy policy. Im guessin it wouldnt get that far, and definitely no FBI, CIA, KGB or VMBMA will be hitting on your door anytime soon.
I am the type of player where I like to do everything and anything from time to time.
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