While I appreciate your stance, I think you are being hypocritical to continue to allow any thread in this forum to remain open at all if you are basing your judgement soely on the terms of the EULA (portions of which may or may not be valid depending on where you live and who your are). To reiterate your quote:
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You also may not copy, modify, adapt, translate, create derivative works of, publicly perform, publicly display, distribute, transmit, decompile, disassemble or otherwise reverse engineer or attempt to reverse engineer or derive source code from, all or any portion of the Product or anything incorporated therein, including any screen display, sound or accompanying documentation, or permit or encourage any third party to do so.
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This applies to every form of mod right down to the simple .ini mods such as Marshall's 1.002 UMP and as such you should have locked virtually every thread in here. Altering the exe is no more or less an acceptable violation of the EULA than when Olaf reverse engineered the mix and voxel formats (with help from a great many other talented people might I add) or when the normals format what elucidated. While Olaf's work was probably a bit before the time of this forum (since DeeZire's modifications which clearly violate the EULA themselves were made possible by those developments), the normals certainly were not and were discussed here. This whole forum and indeed community is built upon violating the EULA of YR and RA2.
On top of this, no materials were directly posted to these forums that violate the EULA and IMO the discussion was an expression of freedom of speech like so many other 'hack the exe' threads before it have been. The fact that this one pertained to an actual working hack is IMO irrelevant to your argument for closing it.
I would advise you to either unlock the thread(s) pertaining to this type of modification or to lock any and all threads in this message board that pertain to modifying, creating and distributing derivative works of WW/EA's intellectual property. I'm fairly sure your mandate as a moderator is not to show bias against particular types of modification just because it requires a very specific and (in this community) rare skill set.
BTW, I advise anyone that supports this argument to NOT post additional comments, particularly emotionally loaded ones criticising 'The Ends' decision further until he has considered the points I raise here.