Why does it matter that SONY makes hardware? I don't see why that was even part of the argument. And no...SONY won't file a suit against the 40 something people running servers for EQEMu.
Why? I'll tell you why...because EQEMu isn't stealing anything from SONY. EQ is a SERVICE that SONY provides. Once you buy the EQ software you can play it however you want. The EULA can't force you to not play the game. They can sue you for certain things, but not for playing on a server.
That would NEVER hold up in court. EQEMu is not making money from this. They are also not losing any money from this. I'm not going to pay to play EQ. I wouldn't play it at all if it weren't for EQEMu. So they haven't lost any money there. If they were there may be a case, but there is none. The EQEMu team provides a free service to OWNERS of the EQ software.
They do not promote people stealing software, nor do they condone any other illegal activities. They are doing nothing illegal.
I assume EQEMu is all their own code and therefore no litigation can touch the software. For the same reason why Microsoft can't touch WINE for Linux. It's an emulator to run Windows software in Linux. Same idea. You buy MS software, you can run it on whatever OS you want to run it on. MS won't support it though. Same deal with EQ. Same deal with the Ultima Online servers. Those still go on as well. It's out there. It's not gonna go away. SONY did waste a LOT of time and resources on attempting to destroy Bleem! and to what end? There are other PS emulators out there as well.
If you're so worried about SONY, why are you even here?
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An obnoxiously large picture should go here with some witty saying about some cartoon character I made in EQ, but then I realized that shit is fucking annoying.
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