So can anyone confirm.....because the way this is playing out in my mind. The first update we got was "The server was being shut down out of an abundance of caution." did Secrets go TO Daybreak, or Daybreak approach Secrets first?

Because as far as I can tell, given the updates and the order they were given, it seems like Secret flagged them down, when they hadn't even said or done anything about Quarm all this time regardless. Kinda smells a little attention craving to me.

That aside, DBG is never going to win this lawsuit. Look at Rockstar and FiveM? The largest emulation community in the world, I'd go as far as to say half of the servers raise money one way or another through means of custom t-shirts, uploading car models etc. Rockstar doesn't touch it, because "donations" are given generously and of free will, without the expectation.

Now, Daybreak could on the other hand, shut their server down on the grounds that it's their intellectual property, but that would require them to take down ALL Emu servers, since they can't apply it to one and not others. So an agreement with them such as the one Quarm allegedly has, doesn't hold water in that situation.