L2J Servers legal or illegal?

[pavelcrime]

Making changes to client is against EULA.

 

PLAYING on an emulated server is against EULA.

 

Running an emulator - tough to decide. NCSoft has no ownership over the java source in any way. Considering the source can be adapted to ANY (or most) games it can't be considered part of the product either. It's just software anyone can use and as far as "technicality" is concerned - not connected to L2.

 

It's like if you use an app to adapt desktop GPU drivers for laptops cos big companies like HP decided to not have support from ATi/NVidia for laptops. They can't do anything to you for using an APP. Same way no one can do anything if you use a torrent client. Pirating and using a torrent client are 2 different things.

 

However - L2Extreme was closed cos it hindered NCSofts business I believe. I think there was a lawsuit. I don't think they guy got jailed. Prolly just took away all his database/source code. That's enough to take a large server down. But that's an extreme case. It had loads of people, made loads of revenue, and in turn took player away from retail servers.

 

I don't know the law. But nobody is gonna budge you for your 50-200 player server.

Now, the host could do something.

InfiniteL2's kain database and source was confiscated by the host once they found out that an L2 server was hosted on their machines.

 

Exactly this.

[Stewie]

Let me tell you excaly what is legal or ilegal.

First of all, having L2j Server is not iligal [L2j was maden for L2 Lover's... who wanna test and play alone]

Just to mention prove: [L2j is not maden to be used by alot people]

 

L2j is not iligal at all.

 

But Lineage Official Client Modification's... this is iligal at all, L2j is not copyrighter, its for free using, and it has owner.

If it was iligal, and have website... at all [still not closed by FBI]... don't be crazy....

 

L2J is Legal.