*LEGIT* Patcher question...

[Fez Ajerbazian]

I've got a question about the way the patcher works. I know 'patcher' has become a bad word with all the freaks in the general forum begging for what amounts to warez.

Now, I realize that sending a user a full copy of a VI executable is a bad thing. Bad on bandwidth, bad on storage and most of all illegal. My question is this:

Is sending the user a binary diff suitable for patching his executables a violation of the law? The patcher would just be providing information then on how the executables are different, not the actual executables. It would be up to the user to decide if they want to patch or not. The patches would of course have to be regenerated every EQLive patch.

I'm sorry if this has been hashed out before, but it just seems to me like if we're not sending the actual files, how are we at fault? We're just sending information about the files.

- Fez