How are private servers allowed to operate without being struck down by copyright infringement or something similar? How was the source code obtained?
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If the server is just connecting players to each other, and the content being played is part of the installed game, then there isn’t really much merit to an argument that the third party server is copyright infringement. It would be like taking your cell phone to a different carrier. You might be breaching a contract, but it’s not copyright infringement.
If the server is actively providing the content, and the third party server is serving that same content, that would be much more likely to be infringing.
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