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It's not the fact that no one would play it, but without SA-MP their sales still wouldn't be as high as they are today, SA-MP has kept GTA SA alive and popular for this long, longer then it would have lasted without SA-MP. As for the question, I highly doubt the SA-MP development team would be stupid enough to do something illegal. At the end of the day SA-MP is here and it will be here for awhile, enjoy it while you can because it's the best mod around at the moment.