You press ACCEPT on the software license every time you log in.
This is a binding legal document that no judge will overturn in favor of a
software hack or emulator.
You paid 50$ for the company to ALLOW you to USE the software.
It is STILL theirs.
Not a flame, just informing you why you are not allowed to do such a thing.
M. Steele
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Software is a "commercial item."
9. You may not use any third party software to modify the Software to
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in the Game or the Software to create or provide any other means through
which the Game may be played by others, as through server emulators. You may
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large load on our infrastructure.
>I don't understand how someone making something that allows you to use
>something that you already own - is stealing. Now if it allowed you to play
>EverQuest without owning a copy, I would understand. But I've paid $50 for
>this game and should be free to play it wherever/whenever I wish; with my
>original CD of course.
>
>If the makers of Bleem (PSX Emulator) can legally make their emulator,
which
>completely eliminates the need to purchase the hardware normally required
>for a PSX game, why can't someone make an emulator that allows you to
>locally use the product that you have purchased (that you are still
required
>to purchase to use) when it doesn't eliminate the need for the EQ servers?
>
>Unless I don't fully understand what the EQ emulator did, it sounds to me
>like Bleem would be a precendent that would cause Verant to lose in court.
>PSX hardware and EQ servers - same thing, you still have to purchase the
>games.