Shakespeare wrote a play that exemplifies this "issue" which RR has raised. It is called "Much Ado About Nothing".
This illegal act, as RR is trying to describe it, is simply another mod whose intention and purpose is to enhance a legitimate end user's enjoyment of the game. This is precisely the same intent and purpose behind all the other mods posted here and elsewhere for SH4.
If the "hack" (and I use the term with much reservation) was to circumvent copy protection so as to allow illegal would-be end users to steal this product, that would be something altogether different, but is in fact not that at all.
The method of the mod may be different but the spirit behind it is precisely the same, end of story. Nobody is stealing from UBI or aiding software piracy with this mod in any way.
C'mon, you've got to be kidding us RR right?
. . . and just when you thought it was "safe to go back into the water", ROFL!!!