Dannager
First Post
If they were posted in the blog and he investigated it then why did he need to scan them at all?
I...what?
If they were posted in the blog and he investigated it then why did he need to scan them at all?
If they were posted in the blog and he investigated it then why did he need to scan them at all?
But, assuming you mean something else, please enlighten me with a definition, not a link to some 100 (or even 11) page thread I have zero interest in slogging through to divine your critique.
Whenever WoTC issues a cease and desist there is widespread outrage.
Now that Paizo has issued a C&D they are just "protecting their intellectual property"?
Is this not blatant hypocrisy?
Has this mysterious C&D been posted?
If not, might as well say it's drama queen martyrdom fantasy . . .
Yea, exactly. That or put it behind a password wall so that it is just for the campaign's players.
I actually ran into the Paizo IP patrol some time back for doing something very similar - a private web site dedicated to the Rise of the Runelords campaign I was running. I had broken apart the PDF of the first adventure and included some of the artwork plus bits and pieces of background text for the players. It was never intended for public consumption... however, one of my players went and posted a link to it on a forum somewhere and then Google and the like started to crawl through the private site and before I knew it I had a fairly friendly cease and desist letter. It basically amounted to please remove the offending material or put it behind a password so that it is not generally accessible.
I ended up cleaning up the site and learning about what Paizo images were fair game (basically what appeared in their community release download sets or on the various Paizo blogs). In the end it wasn't a big deal at all and I learned to be a bit more careful with someone else's IP on the wide open Internet.
However, I do recall several folks berating WotC heavily for similar action, and I can't say the resounding lack of same against Paizo doesn't look a little weird.
Hypocrisy would only be involved if the same poster posted outraged comments in regards to WotC protecting IP, and supportive comments in regards to Paizo doing the same thing. Or vice versa.
So if you can find a quote from anyone in this thread who has posted the opposite view in a different thread in regards to another company, then yes, that might be hypocrisy....for that one poster.