You post is confusing me.. You consider banning people for trading warez to be draconian, but turning them in too Verant is not?
As far as the legal concerns, considering the very sketchy nature of the EULA fights (look at bnetd amoung other things) the smartest course is just avoiding that whole situation together. Why ban? Because it's a valid punishment, and alot less draconian if you ask me than turning someone in.. If we don't make a strong stance on it, it would be very easy for someone to point the finger and say the project is encouraging the trading of eq software.. People who didnt have ways to play online before could now play with warezed eq versions with published cd codes.. Its not worth it...
As far asking about ETA's? Since I havent seen anyone paying any of the developers, who do it in their free time as a service to the users, I don't see how anyone has the right to continually hound them about it... If there wasnt a ban on doing it, 75% of the posts on these boards would be ETA PLZZZZ because of the frequent Verant patches.. Its the nature of the beast.. If you don't like it, you are more than free to develop your own emulator and put up a warez site to supply all your players with prepatch versions..
The problem is that people blindly rush forward without getting some direction first, or come in at a bad time (they find out about it when it's currently broken with live patches) and are so juvenille, that they cant wait a couple of weeks for the patches to come out.
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