Why aren't we calling the FBI? or police?
 

Our server is worth more than $500 dollars correct?


Federal crime....

Sort of like how emulating Sony's game Everquest is not technically legal??

Save the trouble and send this thread straight to rnf...

ddosing his server is illegal

he doesn't have to mention what it runs

(probably)

the ddos is most definitely illegal and, in theory, it falls on the federal law enforcement to do something about it since it is happening across state lines.

the thing is that the FBI has priorities and when they do go after folks for DDOS it is when they are causing serious disruption (i.e. money damages). the reality is that we are a free emulator server...the FBI isn't going to do very much to help us, even if it were reported.

it would go into a giant file with very little man-power to tackle it.

this is old news, and the topic of legality of emulators is something thats been discussed on p99 forever...

the truth is that it doesn't matter whether it is illegal or not; that's a strictly academic question for law school debate.

You can make a pretty good argument for whether or not emulators are legal. The answer, in the end, is only what the last judge has ruled on the matter when it gets dragged into court.

in the real world, all that matters is that SOE hasn't decided to take action against p99. if they did send a cease and desist letter to Rogean (like they did to the folks at Winter's Roar) I imagine that Rogean would pull the plug rather than mount a costly legal process against SOE.

The better question, imo, is why hasn't SOE taken any action...my answer is that they have no reason to hurt an online community that is keeping their franchise relatively popular in the online gaming community. EQ emulators aren't competing with live servers for players...all we are really doing is keeping EQ alive. This is only good for a company that plans on continuing the franchise long into the future.

They do send CaD letters, they go in the shredder.

Common knowledge