(Question) Is playing on this server as a single player considered illegal?

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SPP Classics repack with ike3 playerbots. Based on cmangos. Supports 1.12, 2.4.3, 3.3.5. Check "Releases" for installer

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(Question) Is playing on this server as a single player considered illegal? #145

Open Oddy123123 opened 1 year ago

Oddy123123 commented 1 year ago

I can't afford subscribing to an official server by blizzard and just want to play wow as a single player game to explore its content on my own pace. Is this considered a copyright infringement?

jmfindorff commented 1 year ago

I think as long the server files were created by reverse engineering the official server and are not using any code that was stolen from Blizzard directly, than there shouldn't be any issues with copyright infringement, of course, it is up to Blizzard to send a seize and desist to stop this project, of which at that point any further distribution of this software is illegal, though there'd be no way for them to know who is and isn't using it if it's run offline.