Kazy wrote:[the server risks getting shut down because of it.
These kinds of fears are unsupported, given the gross amount of servers offering such services and not receiving any retaliation from Blizzard. Not to mention the fact that Blizzard can't do shit if the server exists in another country, DMCA has no power outside the bubble of the United States.
The only example of a private server being shut down by Blizzard that I can find is Wowscape, you can google the details for yourself, but long story short, Peyton, the owner of Wowscape, made large amount of money from the microtransactions (the pay to win kind), keeping most of it for herself rather than using it to support the server.