Well if they were made part of the normal software, example the game itself ran in a windowed mode instead of fullscreen normally, then there wouldn't be an issue of people not using it. As for people playing on a PS2 how many of them have a computer nearby anyways and are using it to look things up? I know for a fact that if I get stuck in a video game I can turn around or ask across the room for my fiance to look it up. If he isn't here I can just pause or find a safe place, and then go look it up myself. Not trying to be ****** but those are things you have to keep in mind when you're trying to make an argument like yours justified.

P.S. I know for a fact that if we had an extra high speed card for the laptop or one of the other desktops we'd have that baby online for looking stuff up. Now would that be cheating? Or isn't it cheating if you're rich enough, or smart enough, to build/buy another computer for the express purpose of information lookup mid dungeon crawl?

Yeah, but what if they ban the account that used that mule? Say "Imamule" sends then gil with this method, and SE sees that "Imamule" belongs to someone like 'Mike Smith of Washington DC, USA' (followed by credit card billing info and the such) Using this, they can just ban this person from that account. Unless 'Mike Smith' changes his or her (>_>) billing information, this would even prevent them from just going out and getting another copy of the game.

SE can see farther than just the character that interacts with them personally in game.

The only way I could see around this is the gil sellers actually having some sort of account whose purpose is only for distribution of gil, yet that in itself, deleting all of the gil seller's money, would cripple their operation anyway and is thus a good thing.