Quote Originally Posted by BreathlessTao View Post
On a sidenote, and mind you I'm completely in the dark about this, but honestly: couldn't SE, as a company, go against the actual sites that are "doing business" in the game? Either to the ISP or straight to court? I mean, is there really absolutely no way to take up any sort of legal action against whoever's running such a "business"?
No, because the RMT sites are a business with employees that can't be touched in the courts on that level. Even if they could, how can you say that a site can't provide service for a game? That's the broad stroke of it. It's a website that provides a service. The intricacy of it is only known to players and the developers but to the courts, it's probably not important. And once the law deems to restrict services within the game, then you'd need to restrict ALL services within the game.

SE also can't really tell a business not to operate. They can only say that they don't want them to operate there and do what they can while they are within their domain. Otherwise, until the RMT enter their game, they aren't under any legal obligation to care anything at all about what SE wants.