I'm not sure they so much loaded the game as deliberately circumvented the Warden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warden_(software) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa

I'm not sure they so much loaded the game as deliberately circumvented the Warden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warden_(software) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warden_(software) to copy portions of the WoW memory space (locations of toons, etc) into their own address space... but I think they were busted more on violation of the DMCA for writing code to circumvent warden