Old, but relevant warning

Just read this thread from the test server forum where Tyren says it's against the Terms of Use to use third party programs to mine and publish information regarding World of Warcraft.

To be honest, I had no idea you couldn't use programs to peek in to the data files. I guess everybody else don't know either -- Tyren's note was posted the 15th of April this year. I haven't really seen that much pressure on it being enforced.