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Comment by Razengan | Hacker News Reader

I think there are still pirate servers out there.

But that would be illegal - I was initially thinking of this as a joke in the replay, but then I realized under US law at least this would be a crime.

To be clear: a company can arbitrarily break something you paid for by terminating your account, or just taking the servers online, that is completely legal. That company can then sue you if you connect to someone else's servers or bring up your own, because that is illegal copyright infringement or contractual violation (and possibly CFAA violation because idiocy).

If you paid for the game client(wow) it is not illegal to play in private servers

In the US, it is illegal (copyright infringement) to run a private server.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2010/08/the-88-million-server...

And given that, a lawyer could argue that paying to play on (or even donating to) a private server is contributory copyright infringement. I don't know if that has been tested in court.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributory_copyright_infring...

But oftentimes you can get away with it; few game companies go after small private servers.

You mean Diablo and Starcraft? They do cost money, yet still require access to Blizzard servers, and running on separate servers is a T&C violation, which the DoJ considers a violation of the CFAA.

Jaywalking is also illegal.

Not in CA :D

I really hope you take your "hackery" elsewhere.

https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/vehicle-code/veh-sect-21955.htm...

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