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Re:Steam Removes Game 'Order Of War: Challenge' From User Li... by baby on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @07:50AM (#6990210)
private servers on WoW are illegal, and you might have to downgrade to be able to join one.
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Re:Steam Removes Game 'Order Of War: Challenge' From User Li... by teddyh on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @10:10AM (#6990795)
Illegal? What law is being broken?
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Re:Steam Removes Game 'Order Of War: Challenge' From User Li... by kyrra on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @11:50AM (#6991389)
Blizzard actively shuts down people that reverse engineer their servers[0].

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

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Re:Steam Removes Game 'Order Of War: Challenge' From User Li... by mrjatx on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @12:13PM (#6991520)
His point is that it's a EULA violation, not a criminal one.
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