That's an argument I didn't make. I said, "you have to take the staff corruption and/or incompetence as a whole on P99." Let's say Rogean and Nilbog are completely innocent and never took a kickback in any form. But let's also say that it's true that multiple GMs have been removed for corruption and Uthgaard wasn't lying when he said Nizzar was a known RMTer from blue who was allowed to operate unchecked for almost three years on red. In that case, Rogean and Nilbog are just shitty entertainers. Because, let's face it, Red99 was massively entertaining in the beginning but was allowed to go to shit, first through Rogean's neglect, and later through his intervention.
Rogean will always have plausible deniability because I doubt he ever transacted with anyone directly. But for those three years that Nizzar and his little helpers ran the server, I'm guessing the donations flowed. Only when the server stagnated and population plummeted and the market for items on the server bottomed out did Rogean et al suddenly start going after the RMTers. I'm guessing the donations had slowed down by then as well.
I've purchased no less than 10 copies of original Everquest. How are they facilitating piracy? I seriously doubt anyone involved with eqemu is hosting torrents. That's a legal issue between Daybreak and individual users, not Daybreak and the EQEmu community.
Personally, I'd love to see Daybreak petition a court to seize P99 and EQEmu's IP's. Rogean wasted my time with either his corruption, by knowingly staffing the server with corrupt GMs and allowing Nizzar to operate, or via his incompetence for same. Burn it to the ground. I'm available to depose. It won't happen, though, because Daybreak has too much to lose if the judge doesn't rule favorably. Instead their shitty mods will make moronic comments about how people should feel bad about themselves while Daybreak lacks the balls to do something about it.