jasonbirder - Knowing how to take your posts I refrain from giving you a thorough reply. You would twist words to suit your agenda anyway. But yes, I'd say hacking the file protection system of a commercial release is the issue here, not necessarily the stuff people made of it. But as they profit from a technically illegal act I'd say Ubi would try to find a way to shut the site down. They haven't become a large publisher by exerting Salvation-Army-politics.
tater - There's more to it than just a large-enough dose of "caring". The legitimate map tools can create a map package but that still needs to be imported into the engine by Maddox Games as only they have the legitimate development tools. It wouldn't have made a difference if the map tools had been released as all content would still have gone through Maddox Games. So projects as the BoB map or any larger western europe or realisti MTO map would have ended in the dustbin.