Save closed realm characters?

[Belix]

Hi there, Taem.

When you play on battle.net, your character belongs to Blizzard. I'm fairly certain you'd have to ask them before making copies of their property.

I believe the storage of character files on their servers was meant as an anti-cheat mechanism, and not a means to claim ownership. And if Blizzard considered these files to be valuable property, the fact that they regularly erase them wouldn't support that claim well in court. Blizzard suffers no commercial loss by their deletion, just as they wouldn't by users making backups.

There's a saying I've found useful when considering the position of monolithic legal entities: "It's easier to get forgiveness than permission." Mind you, I'm not advocating breaking any law, but I'm pretty sure no law was written with the intention of consigning harmless, sentimental things to permanent destruction.

...that maphack version vanished forever, as well as the ability to save realm characters

Did you mean that the only known tool that could do this was lost, or are you suggesting Blizzard somehow prevented anyone from ever copying Realm characters again? I'm guessing the former, since the latter isn't possible.