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2. We are stealing Sony's intellectual property for the personal gain of playing for free and getting the classic EQ experience.
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Stealing is theft, theft is removing something from its owner. Intellectual property cannot be stolen unless the creator has lost what they made.
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3. This whole server, and game, is a copyrighted material and we are using this message board to discuss methods to illegally obtain copyrighted materials (from downloading the version of this game required to play to the actual hosting of this illegal Everquest server).
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Untrue. The management has never (to my knowledge) suggested pirating the software. If some 'bad apples' break the rules and suggest that on the forums, then sure, censor them or ban them.
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They need to take a good, honest, look at their own hypocrisy when it comes to unethical behavior and infringing upon Sony's right to not be *cheated* out of their right to profit from their own creative work...
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If the point of this post was about ethics, how's this:
I paid for my software. I have every ethical right to do what I want with it. If I want to edit it, I can. If I want to point my host file somewhere else, I can.
Sony is not being cheated out of anything. Do they offer a classic/trilogy server? No. So they wouldn't be getting paid anyway. If Sony provided the same service, and everyone just played here because it was free, then Sony might be losing money. But that's not the case.
Don't confuse breaking the EULA with law or morality. If you want to argue leniency for the cheaters, you need to do it a different way.