I have read the Terms of service but it doesn’t seem to specifically say " data mining"
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Considering they’re not 100% prohibitting addons, and to make addons you need to data-mine the client at some point, it’s probably not “illegal”.
But it’s probably pretty much in the grey area. Taking data like area maps to make your own fansite with ToS worldmap is probably “not illegal”, but reverse engineering game executables to see how they work would be considered “a lot more illegal”.
It all comes to common sense: If you are data mining just to find out what the latest patch changed, it’s probably okay to do so. But if you’re data-mining to steal content or find exploits with server communication, you’re pretty much stepping out of the “grey” zone and obviously heading into illegality.
PS. Not sure if I fully understand your concept of ‘data-mining’, but I believe you refer to the simple act of finding data in the client (manually or through a program) and figuring out the relations between them? To me data-mining is something a bit more complex like using a SVM classifier or clustering method applied on a dataset to find relations between data. The concepts are maybe similar but I think ‘data-mining’ incorporates a bit more complexity to the task while just exploring the ToS client would be considered, well, just exploring.
Everything that was worth datamining was removed from the client already anyway
Against national act about copyright. Unless approved by the owner.
You have to consider terms of service, legal acts of the country you live in, and morality into it.
I mean for example, only because terms of service doesn’t state you cannot dig into someones personal info, either you keep it to yourself or commit illegal activities with it doesn’t bypass the law. And copyright is just as sensitive as personal information right now.
unless you’re using your account in data mining. they’re not exactly “service”-ing you.
And how is data mining “internet slang”? It is a legitimate field in Computer Science, with tons of PhD’s working on it.
/facepalm
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If IMC asked tosbase to take down their world map, they would’ve done it.
But that never happened.
PS.
In short: “It’s probably not illegal”.
Yeah that’s why unless approved lol. Doubt they would unless obvious unpacked data is uploaded, since unpacking game client and reveals it to the public is actually violating the law. Although I’m pretty sure they don’t really care unless it is used for game code copying for commercial use or what not.
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