[Chilinot]

That is a poor analogy as you could still pull parts from other cars and repair and continue to use the car after the manufacturer stops creating replacements.

A better analogy would be: If you bought a car in 1970 and the company stopped making the super special fuel blend that they have a patent on and no one else is allowed to produce, making your car unusable. Is that theft?

[npteljes]

>you could still pull parts from other cars and repair and continue to use the car after the manufacturer stops creating replacements.

Same can be said about software. People create aftermarket parts just the same as they create third party server implementations.

[bentley]

And then people who create third party server implementations get sued into oblivion. https://www.eff.org/cases/blizzard-v-bnetd