This thread is a loads of bullshit!
@hosts file is legal
@editing l2authd.lineage2.com and l2testauthd.lineage2.com is illegal
Make sence braniac!
a) how can editing hosts file be legal, but at the same time make it Illegal if you add two new lines? BS anyone?
b) L2 client (ncsoft) NEVER does anything to your hosts file.
The way your client connects is. You start up your client, client reads l2.ini to check for the login server domain (l2authd.lineage2.com), it then sends a request for the ip, but WINDOWS (microsoft) first redirects to the hosts file (for obvious reasons), checks if the entry for l2authd.lineage2.com is there. IF there is none, it then sends a request for the ip to the root dns servers. If there is an entry, it uses the ip listed WITHOUT sending a request to the root dns servers.
Again, NCSOFT CANNOT STATE THAT EDITING HOSTS FILE IS ILLEGAL! IT'S NOT IN THEIR AUTHORITY TO DO SO!
HOSTS FILE IS PART OF WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM AND NOT LINEAGE2 CLIENT!
@Simple Hosts Are Illegal Not For NCSoft But For Microsft
And elephants can fly...
Its perfectly legal. Why on earth would MS provide an article on how to change it if it's supposingly gainst the law? BS anyone?
@And Some People That Work In NCSoft Friends Of Me Say :
@Maybe Its The End Of Private Servers
A little elephant that's watering NCSOFT's plants told me:
Maybe it's not.
Do you know why l2ownage.com got shut down?
BECAUSE THEIR SERVERS WERE HOSTED IN THE FUCKING USA.
Anyone hosting their server in the usa is breaching terms of EULA (well not them directly but the users connecting to the server, although it's easier to just shut down the source of the problem than fix the problem itself).
Servers hosted in EU/Russian are more or less safe since, EULA is american invention and so.. WE DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT IT.
Shove your patents and terms of agreement up your ass NCSOFT and take it somewhere else.
@I Think The Last Server Will Close Is www.Lineage.Ro
@They Are Searching For Him About 2 Years To Find His Datacenter
And elephants really do fly. I just saw one!
EVERY IP HAS CORRESPONDING IP ADRESS. You obviously don't know that. The isp that is providing that ip has a huge database with detailed info about every ip adress. IF there was confirmed reason of belief that the certain ip (following as l2.ro) was hosting child porn, then police would go over to the ISP in charge of it, request an EXACT adress where that server is located and then confiscate the hardware.
Why can't ncsoft do that? Well, EU doesn't give a fuck about eula, we went through that already. Because of that, NCSOFT has no juristiction over countries other than the US. As such, servers not located in the usa = safe = cannot be shut down = go fuck yourself ncsoft.
@So I Believe Thats Why NCSoft Wanna Close All Private Servers
Thank you mister genius for that original prophecy! Seriously, how on earth did you come up with that...
Do they want to close down every server other than their own? YES
Do they have the resources (aka money for lawyers) to close down all of the servers? No way lulz, there would always be new ones popping up. Sooner or later they'd run out of money.
Can they do it legally? Hell no lulz. Read the text above why not.
Now copy/paste this post to other BS/paranoid threads like this one.
Regards (not really, not to this topic starter), Velin.