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I'm not a snitch, and I myself am a private server advocate, but recently Blizzard won a case against Alyson Reeves for $88 million in "damages." In that case, her server was public, but even *private* private servers can still get auto-snitched on by WoW clients.
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First off, when it comes to the law, all evidence must be obtained in a legal manner. Blizzard came under heavy fire when their warden system used to scan your entire system memory while WoW was running (thus scanning all applications running alongside WoW). It was meant to be a precaution against hackers, however a lot of questions about "Big Brother", freedom, and whether or not Blizz had the right to do this rised up (Microsoft came under recent scrutiny for monitoring for P2P downloading). Blizz eventually redesigned their warden software to only scan WoW itself.
Fact of the matter is, the World of Warcraft software doesn't "Phone Home" about the connection to servers. I monitor when programs on my computer use the internet and I regulate it, and World of Warcraft never tried to connect to Blizzard (when set up for a private server). It did try to send data to my server, including some logs, but its to my server.
Plus, if Blizzard obtained any information this way, it would be thrown out in court. Remember O.J. Simpson? His lawyer got so much evidence thrown out for silly reasons, and O.J. got away with murder for it. There are commanding officers responsible for the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam and they walked in this country, serving three months house arrest and then now live on a nice beach in Florida. Do you think the government cares about your little server? The only way illegally obtained evidence flies is if your committing treason against the U.S.A.
And in the case of Alyson Reeves, the reason he got such a huge fine for the so called "Damages" you speak of, are because he was making money off his server for in-game Microtransactions. He was selling in-game items for real currency, making a profit off of Blizzard's game. Blizzard usually sends a cease-and-desist letter to private servers before pursuing legal action.
Next time, do a little research before you decide to flame on the internet.
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Thanks for the response.
//L
i'll apply them to the new mmegx next week
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