You are very bad informed.
Every emulator, Aion, WoW, etc.. are illegal because they use reverse engineering on the original game client and using copyrighted material from original developer.
You've understood me wrong because you are inexperienced in hosting public this game.
I hostet Aion Extreme 2.5, 3.0, 3.9 many years. There is not an issue as long you are not reclaimed by NCSOFT and NCSOFT doesn't make legal steps against illegal private servers.
If NCSOF make legal steps against a private server, they are lost, because of NCSOFT financial damage to
which they may have claims.
I don't know where are you living, but in states such Germany, France (Europe) and USA hosting public emulators violating a series of rights of the manufacturer is prohibited. Try not to be rude in a discussion
like this, I didn't offend you. Otherwise, I send a report. I'm only talking about the legal side of this emulator.
From my side, you can publish and run as many emulators as you want, I'm not interested on this.
I give you an example with hosting WoW Private server
Do server owners get punished for running a World of Warcraft server?
That is where things get a little complicated. Hosting a WoW Private Server is technically a copyright infringement, involving server software by developers and server owners. You also use the client files, and that’s a violation. This means that Blizzard can file a complaint to the server-owners (or more realistically, to the host provider where the game is hosted at). This usually happens through an email. The reason being that Blizzard owns the rights reserved to World of Warcraft. But in general, many hosting providers take these DMCA reports for private servers very lightly, especially if they are not US based. Some of the biggest servers run on hosts that are located in Europe, for example OVH – being in France, and they have not been closed down. They have certainly received copyright infringements from Blizzard related companies, but have ignored them. The copyright laws are also different for each country. And Blizzard/the trading mark companies, have not done anything further.
In other words, it’s very normal that Blizzard file copyright complains towards the hosting provider running the particular WoW Server they are ‘targeting’. But it’s very unlikely that Blizzard takes the next step, in case their emails are being ignored. It has only happened with the private server called WoW-Scape, which resulted in a law-suit, but the owner was also US origin based. WoWScape was also a wow server, that Blizzard took in court case, and was judged to pay a lot of money as a fee. But historically, there have not been any other court cases. This includes court cases for server owners, nor for people reverse engineering the game client, touching the database data or the server code involving World of Warcraft.
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