If someone has a country house they haven't used in quite a while as they live in the city, would you be entitled to break in and live there?
People! It is Blizzard's property, even if old property, their copyright hasn't expired, so there's no way to deny it being theft.
A necessitates B, unfortunately. The longer it's up & bigger it gets the less allowance they have for having not taken legal action if they still want the ability to protect their IP.
Hosting in finland provided it's managed correctly sounds like a good alternative. The issue is the nost members / OVH who are under legal fire.
TBH it doesn't even matter how many server they close, people will just move to another, since is still way more fun that WoD
15k daily is prolly more than a lot of live servers
Look at this guy quoting the EULA like it carries any legal weight whatsoever. The EULA is limited to Blizzard's domain; they cannot arrest or sue people; they can ban accounts, but not much else.
Read up on fair use law and civil ownership if you'd humor us all for a brief moment.
When you signed up for Battle.net -
Unauthorized Connections: Facilitate, create or maintain any unauthorized connection to the Service or the Game(s) including without limitation (i) any connection to any unauthorized server that emulates, or attempts to emulate, the Service; and (ii) any connection using third-party programs or tools not expressly authorized by Blizzard; - Section 1-C-Viii - http://eu.blizzard.com/en-gb/company/legal/eula.html
It's not emulating the current service though, right? It's emulating the service that existed 10 years ago.
Not saying you're wrong but I just wonder if that's a relevant distinction.
Last edited by mmocd3ce03bf68; 2016-04-07 at 01:21 PM. Reason: I have no idea what I'm saying :D