Legal Issues
Operating or playing on an emulated server may be in violation of the Ultima Online terms of service, though some see the laws relating to this as being ambiguous and varied between countries. The creators of other games, such as World of Warcraft and EverQuest, on the other hand, have had some success in shutting down emulated servers and have been actively doing so . The reverse engineering required to bypass the packet encryption may also be in violation of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the United States, though many of the file formats were publicly posted before the DMCA took effect.
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