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Originally Posted by paxemuman
"there is no copyrights for those who not respect copyrights". Sremu database =unpacked pk2 files owner of those files are joymax company.Jmerlin trying to claim copyright to illegal software.Connect between client and joymax server are illegal (read joymax rules). So packet sniffing its illegal Jomax have that rule in rules.So all data in emulator are illegal.I dont claim copyrights to my software thats why i cant make anything with cracks .I can say only this is my private work and its not funny jmerlin sremu , thats all.
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The data in those text files would not fall under copyright law. Unpacking a PK2 also does not violate copyright law. That was not even reversed at first (Drew's first extraction tool used their gfx dll to dump the PK2), and even so, was done for interoperability which is an exception to the DMCA (yes, the DMCA is the only thing that might apply in this case, not copyright law). Neither I nor none of the previous developers have placed a copyright on any data retrieved from the PK2 files, only on the code. At best, this stuff could loosely be under trademark, but nothing in them is trademarked so that's a non-issue.
Also, those "rules" from Joymax are TOS/EULA. Sure, capturing packets and reversing them probably violates their TOS just like it does with any game. This is
NOT ILLEGAL. It means Joymax then has the right to ban any and all of my accounts (which they haven't done, btw, not a single one). Traditionally and for a long time consistent with copyright law, purchase (even if cost = 0) of software transferred ownership of a legitimate copy to the customer, and permitted them to be shielded from copyright violation lawsuits by violating TOS/EULA and made it legal to use the software anyway you want (except in the case of the DMCA in the USA). Blizzard's recent lawsuit against MDY move to change this by claiming you don't own a copy of their software -- something that would violate a rather large number of consumer rights and give Blizzard license to sue anyone over just about anything, even if it didn't necessarily relate to actual copyright violation. The EFF is working on this case and is appealing the original (flawed) decision:
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Previous legislation has been in favor of the person reverse engineering the software etc, on grounds of interoperability. That's what ours is, we have a server, we need it to be able to communicate with the client, and so we need the data in those files to make that happen. We're not doing an end-run around any copyright protection scheme with this, just making communication possible.
You don't know what you're talking about, though. You violated the GPL, you have no argument.