I found a private server (WoWFusion) and played on it for a week. The increased rates were quite nice (that's always been my main problem with retail, it feels like a job with how slow it is). The only down side is population, as I like BGs, and WSG was about the only one up reliably.
Just as I was getting into the community, lawyers struck. Last night blizzard got their lawyers together and sent notices to almost every private server out there. They've pretty much all shut down overnight. We're waiting to see if they'll come back up or not (they don't have any real legal standing, but private server owner's can't afford to go to court). I'm oddly saddened by this.
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