I don't mean to single you out here, but I am disturbed by
the lack of resonse to this, so I feel I must comment.
I want to live in a world based on individual sovereignty
and respect for rights, and statements like that above make
that harder. One cannot demand rights without respecting
those of others. Either all have rights, or none do. If
they have a piece of property you want (in this case, access
to their server, which is a contractual privilege that it
costs real money to provide), and their stated price for that
product is a little bit of information, then you must pay
that price honestly or not steal or defraud them of that
product. Their property--including your use of it--/is/
wholly in their jurisdiction, and no one else's.
And no, I am not coming from an intellectual-property point
of view. Privileges are real property, not fictions of the
state like copyrights and patents.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html>