So thats what this is all about, Copyright? Cyan seems to turn a blind eye to all the copyright issues for what ever reason at least as far as I have seen, and in the past their was no way for any one to run a shard legally or pay for use of copyright material and this has not changed as far as I know.
We have an opportunity now, the shards are still illegal But we can pay a reasonable fee for use of copyright material threw donations.it wont make the Shards any less illegal but it might help maintain the blind eye and alleviate some of the problems involved. And who knows it might actually get us something new on the MOULa and produce enough income for Cyan to put more of their work force on open source. I assume the Shard Admins are gonna be the same ones who are gonna be the Open source Server admins.
I thought this was a community, we can pull together and make this happen. Cyan has given us some of the financial responsibility as far as Uru live is concerned.
I donated enough to Cyan to get me a Gold account on GameTap and Im not even a shard admin. I just enjoy the game and the community in all its forms
Im not saying that illegal use of copyright material is OK But now no one is stopping you from paying for it. After all nothing in this world is free. One way or anther their is gonna be a price somewhere down the line