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Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves
While I agree with you on the overall statement. I disagree on some level.
SH3 and SH5 have been patched with no argument from UbiSoft.
That in itself sets a precedence to allow such actions in the future.
Be aware that any such actions can be used by Ubi in future builds.
(Yes. I almost died laughing as I typed that!)
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I would do it if I had a statement from Ubi in writing that it was fine to analyze, reverse engineer, decompile and patch their code. They are never going to do that because they retain full ownership rights to their code.
The fact that a bank is robbed and the robber was not caught is not sufficient reason to say that robbing the bank is permitted. At any time they choose, Ubi can enforce their ownership rights even if they failed to do so in the past. Even if they permitted it in the past. If we patch the .exe and they decide to enforce their EULA we simply will lose. I'm not willing to risk the implications of losing such a case. Other people than myself would be in jeopardy because of my decisions.
This has always been the opinion of the SH4 modding community. It hasn't been an act of ignorance of other choices for SH3 and SH5. It is a purposeful position limiting the difference between modding and hacking.