The community these days. As an active member in the server owner community, what the owner of the server you purchased a rank on messed up. 1. He/she should have re-created the ranks to comply with the EULA, not remove it all-together. Second of all, do any of you think Mojang has the time to send 100's of thousands of Cease and Desist letters? If they don't want to do that, they could black-list the authentication servers, which still wouldn't do anything. Also, the server has till August 1st. Until then, Mojang won't even lift a finger at even one of the bigger servers. Also, Mojang says to 1. Make the other perks available by soft-currency, or some other way to earn. 2. Give everyone the perks.
For all of you saying that what he did was against the EULA, keep in mind Mojang invited servers to panels, talked, and laughed with us for 6 whole months. What they are doing is not fair to the community.