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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5927153" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>The time when they use the word "benefit" in the OPTA, it doesn't really seem to be interchangable with the word "profit:"</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Using it to participate in the online playtest is considered using it "for your own benefit" under OPTA, but I don't really understand how it could be "for your own profit" in any financial sense. Unless "profit" also has some doublespeak meaning I'm unaware of that is broad enough that it could include participating in the playtest? In which case, what else might that term cover? Or if you're allowed to charge money to people to playtest with them? </p><p></p><p>That bit is also unrelated to the bits about not making copies or derivatives, which what what I pointed out as Mearls asking us to break the agreement. That bit doesn't say "don't do it for your own benefit," it just says, "don't do it," seemingly indicating that there's no circumstance under which it's OK to print out a character sheet if you want to be in accordance with the Agreement. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>What sounds likely to me is carelessness, but, curiously, that's not an option you presented. Since I've said over and over again, starting with the very first post in the thread, that I don't expect WotC to take much legal action based on this, I don't know why you continue to insist that "teh evil" is still an option I entertain.</p><p></p><p>Like I said above, I don't think it's malice, I think it's foolishness. Carelessness. A legal department perhaps too enamored of boilerplate their own jargon to bother to craft something that <em>actually does what they need it to do</em>. That doesn't require evil, it just requires a very banal obliviousness. </p><p></p><p>And "implications" don't feel very reliable to me, when compared to the actual language of the agreement.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 5927153, member: 2067"] The time when they use the word "benefit" in the OPTA, it doesn't really seem to be interchangable with the word "profit:" Using it to participate in the online playtest is considered using it "for your own benefit" under OPTA, but I don't really understand how it could be "for your own profit" in any financial sense. Unless "profit" also has some doublespeak meaning I'm unaware of that is broad enough that it could include participating in the playtest? In which case, what else might that term cover? Or if you're allowed to charge money to people to playtest with them? That bit is also unrelated to the bits about not making copies or derivatives, which what what I pointed out as Mearls asking us to break the agreement. That bit doesn't say "don't do it for your own benefit," it just says, "don't do it," seemingly indicating that there's no circumstance under which it's OK to print out a character sheet if you want to be in accordance with the Agreement. What sounds likely to me is carelessness, but, curiously, that's not an option you presented. Since I've said over and over again, starting with the very first post in the thread, that I don't expect WotC to take much legal action based on this, I don't know why you continue to insist that "teh evil" is still an option I entertain. Like I said above, I don't think it's malice, I think it's foolishness. Carelessness. A legal department perhaps too enamored of boilerplate their own jargon to bother to craft something that [I]actually does what they need it to do[/I]. That doesn't require evil, it just requires a very banal obliviousness. And "implications" don't feel very reliable to me, when compared to the actual language of the agreement. [/QUOTE]
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