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[rant] Fighting intellectual theft on WOTC
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<blockquote data-quote="Heretic Apostate" data-source="post: 1371821" data-attributes="member: 696"><p>Ugh... I don't know how you mods do it. People really can't seem to grasp the fact that sharing copies of documents with all your friends, and a thousand strangers, is a <em>bad thing</em>.</p><p> </p><p>I've been maligned and belittled on WOTC because I dared to tell someone that, even though they own the ESD version of two old WOTC/TSR supplements, it was not legal for them to get *.txt versions from anyone who might have copied the text from the PDF into Notepad and corrected the OCR errors.</p><p> </p><p>As I understand it, there are only two authorized outside distributors of the electronic versions of the supplements, right? svgames and rpgnow are the only two companies that may distribute them.</p><p> </p><p>I also pointed out that, while intellectual theft was a bad thing, it might not be a good idea to try it on the manufacturer's message boards, since there was no legal way for them to obtain it from a non-authorized dealer (excerpts for sharing among your gaming group, for reviewing the documents, and for parody purposes being the only things permissible; wholesale copying of the entire file is <u>not</u> allowed...).</p><p> </p><p>Okay, done ranting... Was I out of line? Check out the thread, but please post comments here, not in that thread! (No need to possibly lure them back to EN World, right? I'm not trying to flame them, nor am I trying to be a troll over there. I'm just trying to pount out what is possibly an unpalatable truth to them, before they get themselves banned...)</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=180910" target="_blank">http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=180910</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Heretic Apostate, post: 1371821, member: 696"] Ugh... I don't know how you mods do it. People really can't seem to grasp the fact that sharing copies of documents with all your friends, and a thousand strangers, is a [i]bad thing[/i]. I've been maligned and belittled on WOTC because I dared to tell someone that, even though they own the ESD version of two old WOTC/TSR supplements, it was not legal for them to get *.txt versions from anyone who might have copied the text from the PDF into Notepad and corrected the OCR errors. As I understand it, there are only two authorized outside distributors of the electronic versions of the supplements, right? svgames and rpgnow are the only two companies that may distribute them. I also pointed out that, while intellectual theft was a bad thing, it might not be a good idea to try it on the manufacturer's message boards, since there was no legal way for them to obtain it from a non-authorized dealer (excerpts for sharing among your gaming group, for reviewing the documents, and for parody purposes being the only things permissible; wholesale copying of the entire file is [u]not[/u] allowed...). Okay, done ranting... Was I out of line? Check out the thread, but please post comments here, not in that thread! (No need to possibly lure them back to EN World, right? I'm not trying to flame them, nor am I trying to be a troll over there. I'm just trying to pount out what is possibly an unpalatable truth to them, before they get themselves banned...) [url="http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=180910"]http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=180910[/url] [/QUOTE]
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