That's dumb, why do they care so much about copyright? I was going to re-new my subscription but I'm not sure I will. Are there any good open source space games that accept donations?
I advocate for a lot of intellectual and software freedoms, but abolishing copyright and all intellectual property concerns (of which this one is entirely valid) seems a bit ludicrous.
You should've known what you were getting into when you originally subscribed. The game has always been closed-source, and pay-to-play (even if you use PLEX, someone is paying).