Last Month the Japanese try to retrive this mod a little bit more. They played in the at 2pm CET. At the moment the gametracker,com Server Monitorring is off. Hope soon they turn it on. The ranking seems to work.
i guess if the world was just based on trust it would fall apart in a couple of minutes.. its reasonable to assume that if someone is downloading an (lets not forget illegally) copied game that they don't also own it.
that said EA should let you submit your serial and then be able to download the discs legally...
I use images because my discs cracked years ago.. if your school/isp get funny about it theres other ways... maybe via private messages..