Quote Originally Posted by Gurblash
I bet 'program that shall not be named' had the same thing infact I even went through the trouble of finding it for ya.
The Nameless Program is getting sued because it allows automation. The technical ground for the lawsuit is copyright violation, because the program reads WoW's memory and makes a copy of it.

HotkeyNet doesn't do anything like that. It can't do automation because it doesn't have loops or any method of detecting what's happening inside WoW. It can't be sued for copyright violation because it doesn't copy WoW's memory or even look at WoW's memory.

Honestly, really, it's crystal clear to programmers that there is a gigantic difference between the types of programs we're discussing. One type of program (the nameless kind) reads WoW's adress space, writes WoW's address space, reads WoW's packets, hooks WoW's DLL's, etc. This is blatantly against the rules. The other type doesn't do that sort of thing. None of the programs discussed in this forum are in the first category, so far as I know.

By the way, I'd really like your opinion of those pages I linked. Do you think they are okay? Do you think they should be changed?