[MentalNomad]

I see that line on the forums often -- that the reference to profiling is in a section on AI -- but that doesn't really matter. The devil's in the details.

The line in question (in a section clearly labeled "7. Anti-Cheating Software."):

"We are committed to detecting and preventing software programs which are designed to enable artificial intelligence ("AI Software") to play on our Services such as, but not limited to opponent-profiling, player collusion, cheating software or anything else that we deem enables you to have an unfair advantage over other players."

Firstly, in legal language like this, it doesn't matter that much that the line begins with "artificial intelligence." It ends with, "OR ANYTHING ELSE that we deem enables you to have an unfair advantage over other players." They're leaving it wide-open for themselves.

More importantly, most people miss the point of this paragraph. It does NOT describe Party's position on cheating software, or what denotes cheating software. It is in a section about "anti-cheating software," which is allowing THEM to embed anti-cheating software in the Party application you install. You are allowing them to install Anti-Cheating Software on your machine to catch you if you use "anything else that [they] deem enables you to have an unfair advantage over other players." Here is the rest of the paragraph; this part is the meat of the clause:

"You acknowledge that the Company will take measures to detect and prevent the use of such programs and AI Software using methods (including but not limited to screen scraping or reading the list of currently running programs on a player’s computer) and you agree not to use any AI Software and/or any such programs."

So the paragraph was never meant to describe what is and is not allowable; by agreeing to this paragraph, you agree to let them snoop your machine in order to find ANY software they decide is inappropriate. . . and they define inappropriate as "giving you an advantage over other players."