Lazarus take down that image its bad for this company, if you really want to know how to get a wow private server ill send you a mail of tons of different cores, but you shouldn't be showing that image on this site.
Quote: "Your argument is great as far as it goes, but is that actually what happened here? Is there proof, or was this a simple case of reverse engineering - as I understand it, there's even a choice of freely available software to use if you want to run a server yourself - all perfectly legally."
Well, these maps on every core i know for wow private servers aren't reversed engineered, they are extracted from the data files, however i do think there is some reverse engineering going on because wow private servers are programmed inside C++. (originally, you can set one up that has already been compiled, these are known as repacks)
I never got into the C++ programming side due to me having a problem with .net framework refusing to install, then when i got my new computer i had lost all interest in private servers.
However i do know that on this pre compiled side it is very complex with thousands of lines of code, i would doubt that the core (a private server core is you could say the way it was programmed, i cant really describe it, but theres tons of different cores), was completely programmed without reverse engineering. However that is no fact, and i will not stand by it.
Quote: "I've also seen arguments elsewhere that because this server did not include any verification of Blizzard's registration codes that Scapegaming are guilty of circumvention (as per the DMCA), but on the other hand, why should anyone but Blizzard have to support Blizzard's own licensing scheme? After all, if you aren't using Blizzard's servers, why should you need to support it? As a client, you aren't costing them anything - no server time, no network usage etc, and you are connecting to someone else's service instead and paying them - so why would you feel you need to pay out twice?"
I know in england it isn't done much, but you do not own your copy of world of warcraft at ANY point. When you run the WoW App you are actually (you could say) renting the ability to use it.
Its like you buy a new flat, you don't own the flat, but you rent the ability to use the flat.
Because of that you are required to support all of Blizzards EULA, terms of use whatever, to just run the application (not just log in). And like i said to connect to the private server you also need to modify the realmlist to connect to the private server, which is also against the rules (modifying game data files).
Quote: "I understand it, there's even a choice of freely available software to use if you want to run a server yourself - all perfectly legally."
It violates the terms and conditions i agreed to when i ran wow, regardless of who i connect to or if i got the game for free illegally. Therefore it isn't legal, it could be considered a contract.
I believe though it isn't hard to clone the database, im pretty sure when you load something in wow it saves it to the Cache files, in the cache files are all the information needed to start linking up the database with the correct values. Even fan-sites like Wowhead have the correct IDs to the Information.
However, i have known of very well made private servers in the past, which are hard to tell from the real ones (generally minor bugs, but hard work has made the majority of things to work properly), these people then make profits by selling gold to the people, and it isn't as uncommon as you may think (most *popular* private servers try and do this, popular can just be 15 people on at once). It is robbery, it is Blizzards product, it is morally and legally bad, i don't know why you are supporting this lady.
Quote: "@Fatal Berserker,
Congratulations. So far, you are the only person who has tried to answer the question 'what was copied?'"
Can i have a cookie?
Smoke me a kipper, ill be back for breakfast.
