To address your original comments about EA's EULA, Blade, every EULA written pretty much says no one can do anything at all. That's the way these things are written, in typical legalese cover-all-the-bases fashion so that they can be used to defend against unforeseen future events. Virtually any mod for any game can be potentially shut down should the developer and/or publisher of the product choose to pursue that course. Or not.
In practice what matters is how the product is actually defended. Historically EA is notoriously lax in defending its products, which is why so many mods include assets from their games that are only slightly modified, and/or assets from other EA games (which is a violation of the EULA's from those other games). Many other developers and publishers do not tolerate this. But EA has consistently turned a blind eye to these goings-on.
Generally the line is drawn where the EXE is concerned. Inclusion of a texture or graphic, or even a model, from another game into a released mod project (as long as no money changes hands), is often ignored (there are exceptions of course). But modifying a game EXE can very often bring the legal wrath down. Again this is a matter of enforcement - some developers don't "seem to care" when the game is "old enough"... others will defend vigorously no matter how much time has passed since the game's release (these last do also seem inclined to eventually make the EXE open-source, which when you think about it serves to add weight to defending their legal position vis-a-vis their still-proprietary software goes).
I agree there is nothing really wrong about simply discussing violating a EULA as opposed to actually violating it, but I can also understand an unwillingness to go down that road among forum staff, because such a discussion could conceivably lead to someone posting a link to such a hacked product - at that point it stops being a theoretical discussion, leaving the onus on the moderators to need to police such topics more closely than is humanly possible.
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