Well here's my opinion on the matter. SoE really cannot press charges on EQEmu, because if you notice, most everywhere on the Emulator you can see that it says "EverQuest is copyrighted to EverQuest, Inc." Therefore, they are not calling EverQuest their own game, nor are they calling the servers the "real servers". The fact is, there wouldn't be a point for them to terminate your account or prosecute EQEmu. Terminating a paying customer? That's baaaad karma for SoE, which is just what they DON'T want right now. I know they'd do it anyway, but if you're paying to play on EQLive isn't it the same as paying to play EQ on a different lineage of servers? Heck, you're still PAYING aren't you? If your EQLive is terminated, then you play EQEmu, and that's all they could really do, in my eyes at least...

Actually, they wouldn't care. If you read the posts before you. Killing most of the accounts here wouldn't even hurt their profit.

so is it safe to play or what? :?

Yes.