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This, in practice, is almost impossible to prove. In other words, if this is the standard of recovery for copyright infringement, then you may as well abolish copyright so we can return to the era of patron provided funding for artistic endeavors. This is why the law (in the U.S. and most other...

I thought it was Big Bird.

Libraries (in the U.S. at least) are supposed to take steps so that photocopier use by patrons doesn't exceed the bounds of fair use. See 17 U.S.C. § 108.

Hence, most. As in, not all. However, if you sat down and started copying verbatim a book, I think even Barnes & Noble would have problems with that.

In a typical jurisdiction, WotC will have 20 years to collect on the judgment. Le could earn quite a bit of money. I wouldn't be surprised if WotC attmpted to garnish all his future earnings for the full time period, or entered into a payment agreement that accomplishes substantially the same thing.

Your neighbor has a bare dirt back yard. For your own convenience, you often cut through his back yard even though he does not want you to do this. Have you harmed him or not? Suppose to keep you out he erects a fence around his property, with a pair of gates allowing traverse, through which he...

Not really. The right to control how your work is distributed (i.e. the right you have to prevent others from appropriating your work as their own by asserting their authoriship of it) stems from copyright. The fact that you can make a fuss when someone removes your name from your work and puts...

Try it. I have a feeling that in most book stores you'd get kicked off the premises pretty quickly.

That would be an affirmative defense that the defendant would need to prove once the plaintiff made their prima facie case. In other words, if the plaintiff has to demonstrate it is more likely than not that the defendant did it (by showing that it was his .pdf that was posted) and if the...

Jedi have magic. Did you not note my "absent the effects of magic" comment? Drizzt has magic. No, they don't. They also have Joss Weedon supergirl plot immunity. And their abilities and fighting styles would be best represented in D&D with the monk class. Steven Seagal doesn't get hurt in...

Allow me to point something out: armor is very helpful. Yes, people don't want to wear armor in the heat, or while mountain climbing and so on, but it is protective. There's a reason why soldiers wore lots of armor throughout history, although (of course) they always had to make a choice between...

Of course, the counter argument there is that someone who was truly a hard core gamer would find the money and make the time.

In A3, the players can walk out of the dungeon, but then the adventure falls to pieces. There is literally no way to advance into the Slave Lords lair except the canalized linear dungeon. And if the PCs don't get into the lair, the adventure ends. The most annoying thing about A3, is that the...

True. It is about divine grace. :D

Well, ther auto-capture element is only one thing that makes the A series somewhat railroady. A3, for example (both the tournament and non-tournament versions), consists of two dungeon crawls with an interstitial sketchily laid out town investigation. The two dungeon crawls are literally a line...

Well, then by that standard, pretty much any year since about 2001 would qualify and the 1980s are right out.

Since we don't have hard data on any numbers concerning how many gamers played when, or how many products were sold when, and quality of gaming itself is entirely subjective, how do you assert one time period is more golden than another? The only real constant is gamers, and I seriously doubt...

Would that be twenty million cumulative or twenty million at all times? We also don't know if those numbers have any sort of actual research behind them, or are just from their behind estimates.

Today is the golden age of gaming as much as any time period has been. No more, and no less.