@OP ....... Reaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyy I mean .. just .. REAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLYYYYY ???????
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Keep in mind, every time someone asks this question, it's filled with piles of misinformation but uninformed people who have no understanding of the law. Unfortunately, however, that's never going to change, so there will continue to be threads like this asking, and receiving ill-informed information.
Long story short, there are practices here that are legal, and there are practices that are not. It's highly dependent on regional law, and as such, you're best of researching it yourself if you're concerned about it. The law isn't perfect anywhere though, and so, you never really know how it would work out until well... it works out. Also, outside the realm of regional law, if you're using a source based on OdinMS and you do not make the source available to everyone who has access to the server (i.e. can connect to it), then you are breaking the license, and your rights to the software are revoked. As such, you're committing a civil offense as per the Affero GPL license. However, as Odin has never even tried to sue someone, I think the biggest concern for everyone is the aspects that depend more on regional laws.
As for the US, there are two aspects of most servers that fall into the realms of "illegal activity." One of them is a white-collared crime, and the other is a civil offense. The white-collared crime is a simple one, it's fraud. This is the result of servers misrepresenting themselves and asking for so-called donations which never actually end up benefiting the server. It is
not legal to ask for
donations to support a server, and to use them as
profit. That is actually a very serious offense, and could potentially cause you a lot of legal trouble. As for the civil offense, it's the one everyone knows and loves. You're using Nexon's copyrighted content. Though, in all actuality, as long as you don't distribute it, you're pretty much okay under US law. This means no distributing modified clients, and no distributing modified wz files. Redirectors are a grey area, because it's actually dependent on how they operate, and as such, you should have an intimate understanding of how your redirector functions. So, now you all know. Don't be an idiot, and you won't break any [US] laws. This information may very well be misrepresentative of other countries, but it should hold true pretty well in the US. There's been supreme court cases, and the like that represent various aspects of this.
