A very interesting article! I can't see how SOE will ever be able to stop someone breaking their code. It's just one of those things.
It seems unfortunate that they've targetted the ShowEQ community and will end up providing more EQ players with a resource that used to require at least some effort to install. Now we'll see most players using some form of ShowEQ like the UO mapping tool UOAutomap which has been around for some time.
At the end of the day it's just a map that displays valuable zone information and it's not being intended to be used for any milicious purpose. Get a grip SOE
You've already lost.