The overwhelming majority of activity in the Future Pinball scene falls into this ethical gray area. The goal is preservation and enhancement. The developers of BAM explicitly design it to work with the unmodified, freeware Future Pinball executable. The use of the 4GB patch is simply unlocking a performance limit set by the operating system. The "cracking" of the time-limited betas was an act of necessity to prevent years of community work from being rendered useless.