2013-12-29, 09:06 AM
Melbourne Wrote:What's the difference between using a packet editor and using a website like this? This website runs on bots (scripted with an illegal third party program) and is clearly illegitimate, just as a packet editor is.
That would be "Gathering Information" vs "Changing Reality".
Or the difference between having invented a gun, and having armed an entire nation of homicidal maniacs while profiting from it..
Reading the WZs is also illegal.
Mining out the monster book data, illegal.
Scraping the ranks, illegal.
Scraping the current world population levels, illegal.
This falls under the same category as all of those. If you don't like it, don't use it.
As long as it's passively logging public data and making it available to a wider audience it's not hacking, and before anyone else puts their foot in their mouths on this subject I am going to give the entire thread a reminder about;
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And this thread is going into timeout so everyone can chill long enough to digest.
It's not having what you want - It's wanting what you've got.