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pservers are illegal.

Yeah they are illegal actually... I've played RO once and it's boring

De Kus wrote:pservers are illegal.

It depends. If it's Aegis, which is not an emulator...it's illegal. If it's on athena...it's just emulating a ro server. Do you get what I mean? Athena won the legal stuff over Gravity...

sounds pretty sketchy..
i like it.

never played ro though and never will.

rodoabad wrote:

De Kus wrote:pservers are illegal.

It depends. If it's Aegis, which is not an emulator...it's illegal. If it's on athena...it's just emulating a ro server. Do you get what I mean? Athena won the legal stuff over Gravity...

pservers are still illegal even if the server software is not illegal.
To connect to an pserver you have to modify your client, each server offers at least an instruction to do this alteration, this makes the server already illegal (I am not very familar with international law, but I am sure the topic "invitation to criminal action" is prohibited in a wide area. You could try to warn the people, they will break the law following this, but I am not sure if this would stand before the law ^^). So I don't need to bother my brain, if they use other illegal things (like hosting a patch, thats not less illegal than hosting a crack site). Only because gravity and other official server maintaner do not take legal measures against such "peanuts" (most pservers webpages are not hosted within a major country... I wonder why? ^^), it doesn't make them legal.
If you still believe you will be able to proofe me I am wrong, I might consider taking my statement back ^-^.

You can call pservers somewhat "tolerated" but please do me a favor and never call them legal!