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Private servers?!

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Relenarth
#0 - Oct. 18, 2006, 8:10 p.m.
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alrighty blizzard i have been hearing a lot about private servers and im wondering....is it legal as long as we have paid accounts?...if so how?! i dont aim to charge for people to play me and a few friends just wanna test out some GM commands and other fun stuff please reply...and once again i respect ur company and wouldnt try to cheat or steal money from you
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Kaone
#4 - Oct. 18, 2006, 8:22 p.m.
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Hello Relenarth,

Creating or hosting a private server is expressly forbidden and is in violation of the World of Warcraft Terms of Use. I have underlines relevant parts of sections 2B and 2C below.

2. Limitations on Your Use of World of Warcraft.

Your license to use World of Warcraft is limited by this Terms of Use and the World of Warcraft End User License Agreement which you were required to accept when you installed World of Warcraft. Limitations on your right to use World of Warcraft may include, but not necessarily be limited to, the following:

    A. Blizzard Entertainment expressly reserves the exclusive right to create derivative works based on World of Warcraft. This means that you may not create derivative works based on World of Warcraft, without the prior express, written permission of Blizzard Entertainment.

    B. Only Blizzard Entertainment or its licensees have the right to host World of Warcraft! Accordingly, you may not host, provide matchmaking services for, or intercept, emulate or redirect the communication protocols used by Blizzard Entertainment as part of World of Warcraft, regardless of the method used to do so. Such prohibited methods may include, but are not limited to, protocol emulation, reverse engineering, modifying World of Warcraft, adding components to World of Warcraft, or using a utility program to host World of Warcraft.

    C. You agree that you will not (i) modify or cause to be modified any files that are a part of a World of Warcraft installation; (ii) create or use cheats, "mods", and/or hacks, or any other third-party software designed to modify the World of Warcraft experience; (iii) use any third-party software that intercepts, "mines", or otherwise collects information from or through World of Warcraft; or (iv) allows players who are playing characters aligned with the "Alliance" faction to chat or otherwise communicate directly with players who are playing characters aligned with the "Horde" faction, or vice versa. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you may update World of Warcraft with authorized patches and updates distributed by Blizzard, and use authorized Third Party User Interfaces as set forth in Section 13(g), below.