It's a shame the Jazz3 alpha is illegal, seeing how it's fully moddable. Hell, the standard Unreal level editor even comes with it along with all the script packages. It's as moddable as any other Unreal-powered game. That being said..

I know the alpha is illegal, but if I made some mods for it would they be considered illegal as well? The only thing keeping the alpha illegal is the engine it runs on, so I guess the scripts and media created by the original team do not belong to Epic. I could distribute the mods by themselves, and anyone who happens to have the alpha "wants to" could download them (get what I'm saying).

Sure there's supposedly some indie projects out there but even if one of them was to make it, it's still more fun playing around with the original product.

* I was also going to ask if anyone had recently gone to Epic to ask about the alpha, but I guess it doesn't matter if it's outdated or not. Now that I think of it, there's not really any free standalone Unreal-powered games out there. If there were, you could basically make your own game by completely modding the original game and the re-distribute it. I'm also pretty sure Epic earns royalty fees off each title. So it will never be "legal".