>Yes, but if you charge me for the privilege of being in your house, ie

rent,

>you will find it much harder to legally evict me from your premises, and
>don't even think about evicting me and then withholding my possessions.

Right, the difficulty would be in proving those are "your" possessions. You
aren't paying to "own" them in any way the law currently accepts, you are
renting their use while using Verants service. In the work scenario, if you
were fired as Copier Guy you couldn't take the copier, the company was
paying for that copier to be there, and no matter how much money you made
for them as Copier Guy, you can't take it with you.
I think that is actually a really strong case against EBay sales imparting a
Real World value to EQ items. What you are actually buying is the ability
access the itemID in EQs database during the time you are paying for
Verant's service. For instance if you quit the game Verant is under no
obligation to pay you fair market value for your items, in large part
because they are not items, they are graphics with an ID, which Verant owns
and which they allowed you to use for 10 bucks a month. If you paid for
greater access that is between you and the seller, but the only identifiable
"thing of value" is the service Verant provides.
The final nail in the coffin is that whether or not having access to a full
set of Lambent improves or lessens the quality of the service Verant
provides is totally subjective (though, um, duh :o) you may *think* it makes
the service better but as the case can be made that full access to all items
actually has LESS value, you would have a hard time proving it, um, to a
non-bard.

At anyrate, just thinking out loud, er, when I should be working,

Tszaaz