User blog comment:Bovell/Popular Modern Warfare 2 mod, alterIWNet, shutdown by Activision/@comment-3123696-20120312212048/@comment-4478081-20120313050719

Regardless of whether the creators gained profit from it or not, is still does not negate the fact that people are more or less getting the full game without paying any money for it. IMO, mods like this should require users to possess the original game first like pretty much every CoD4 mod.