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		baby on Dec 31, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Steam Removes Game 'Order Of War: Challenge' From ... private servers on WoW are illegal, and you might have to downgrade to be able to join one.

teddyh on Dec 31, 2013 [–]

Illegal? What law is being broken?

kyrra on Dec 31, 2013 | [–]

Blizzard actively shuts down people that reverse engineer their servers[0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnetd

mrjatx on Dec 31, 2013 | | [–]

His point is that it's a EULA violation, not a criminal one.

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