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Well, if EA decided to make the call to legally attack UO emulation, I think the first step would be to chat with the SWG guys.
SOE backed off with legal action against them, because they didnt actually do anything illegal. By using un-patented/registered packets without reverse engineering the client, it was found that the SWG guys actually did nothing wrong.
When the first SWG team started SOE found this and decided to buy the team out instead. However the second team, they tried again, but were declined in thier offer. Now SOE has just left them to thier business.
Same in the case of DAOC, the emulator is considered legal, however any client hacking/modifications or reverse engineering is considered illegal, and people who speak of that on the forum are banned, as a show of good faith to Mythic.
Even though Blizzard did kill off the WOW Emulators, perhaps that was somehow different to these other projects. I could possibly think that WoW Emulators somehow hack the client to connect, break encryption methods, or something like that. Which is possibly why they won.
Whereas in UO, although we do still decrypt the client for the majority of use, it is actually really simple to use the encryption as it stands, therefore not requiring the hack of the client, being that the login file is a simple text file, and requires no decryption at all to change.
They MAY get us somewhere else. In the upcoming KR they may change where the login is stored, or encrypt the file. They may also protect the client much better against us.
What may end up occuring is we stay back with the old client. If so, who really cares as long as we can still do what we want with UO, what would you rather, Having to not use KR, or having to not do UO Servers at all. I'd pick not having KR if it came down to it.
In that case, we just need to write our own clients, possibly redo our own animations from 3D models, so we can update the client ourself when they eventually discontinue it. Or hey, why not write our own client and overhaul it like EA did with KR, nothings stopping us really.
Thats my thoughts on the situation, if companies like SOE and Mythic intentionally let people do it, or give up legal action, then there something we can use against EA if push comes to shove.
I highly doubt like everyone else though, that anything substantial will come of this. And even so, they can't kill us all, and they can't kill private shards.
Its like, rather than how many midgets (PC: Vertically challenged people) does it take to screw in a lightbulb. But how many cease and desist orders does it take to kill UO emulation.
Answer, too many to count. It'd probably take all the money they have to get the ball rolling :P
Sure, they could target the most popular, and server software sites first, but in doing that, more would replace it by the time they were removed. And even then, they still have to take on everyone else. I wouldnt like to be the lawyers firm who'd have that job.
Thats my opinions on the matter, if the apocalypse comes, start researching the other emulated mmo's that has been left alone.
Hey, lets hope they just target the big EA clones like UO:Gamers and leave us customisers/modders alone :P
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