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You have no legal right to privacy on the internet. If the US government busts a kiddie-porn site and your name is listed as a 'member' of that pay site, the government has every right to come to your house and arrest you.... and they do. Same thing with warez sites, etc. The problem is, there really aren't any laws yet that protect software developers from instances like this. The lawbooks haven't caught up to the technological age. The second problem is that we live in an economy that applauds such methods... and therefore the government would be leary about derailing such an enterprise. So at the end of the day, they can 'legally' abuse a game and turn a profit.
As far as Squeenix's profits go, they could claim that member count has dropped due to the exponential increase in RMT, meaning lost profit due to RMT practices causing a general dissinterest in playing the game. Hard to prove though.
In the end, they can continue to tighten the grip on things, but only so far. You have to balance how it affects the rest of the community. If the changes they make hurt everyone and not just RMTs... the damage exceeds the benefit and they cannot do it.
They should refocus their effort on perhaps curbing certain other annoyances... like camping NMs that you already have the rare/ex item from. That annoys me more than RMTs. They have the damned item and continue to camp it just to **** over other people. Or hell.. camping NMs in general. If you've already obtained the rare item off an NM, your chance of getting it again should be nerfed. All these ppl have to do is wait for the pop, kill it, and make an ass of money. They even have a damn timer so the second it pops, there they are, logging in and taking it.. magically right next to the damn NM. Shit like that should be canned.
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