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  1. Lonely Tylenol

    Exclusive interview WotC President Greg Leeds

    Also, these sorts of PDFs were around before WotC started releasing its own, which suggests that they'll make a comeback now that WotC isn't producing them. Early scans were garbage, but like everything, the quality improves as technology and skill improves. Somewhere out there are people who...
  2. Lonely Tylenol

    Exclusive interview WotC President Greg Leeds

    Why, to robotically parrot the talking points of people giving press conferences, of course. Not saying that that is what happened here. Just an opinion about the current state of journalism.
  3. Lonely Tylenol

    Exclusive interview WotC President Greg Leeds

    Let's turn that around and ask, if the person in question has no interest in telling the truth, but is actually paid to lie if it will increase the profits of the company, why would you automatically take what they say at face value? The answer to your question is, of course, that he might tell...
  4. Lonely Tylenol

    My name is "Defendant Radzikowski"

    The law doesn't cover distribution of copied materials. But it does cover personal copies of borrowed materials, which is why I framed my example in the way I did. You can borrow a CD from a friend and make a copy of it legally. Also, you can make personal recordings from the radio. In fact...
  5. Lonely Tylenol

    My name is "Defendant Radzikowski"

    I'm led to believe that in the U.S., if a friend of yours lends you a CD, and you make a copy of that CD, you're in violation of the law. The CD is copyrighted, and by duplicating it you're violating that copyright. Now, that's not the case where I live. We pay a levy on all our blank media...
  6. Lonely Tylenol

    Exclusive interview WotC President Greg Leeds

    I think they're using ouija boards. Or maybe a magic 8-ball. "Are we losing sales to piracy?" *shake shake* "Signs point to yes."
  7. Lonely Tylenol

    Exclusive interview WotC President Greg Leeds

    Colour me skeptical.
  8. Lonely Tylenol

    D&D Iconic Adventure Site Tropes

    The Planar Romp: In a place where the regular laws of physics don't apply, fight monsters that look like an Escher engraving! This trope cover pretty much every situation where you go through a portal into a place that has its own special environment, and it can be mixed with other tropes. For...
  9. Lonely Tylenol

    My name is "Defendant Radzikowski"

    Agreed. This has been a very educational thread.
  10. Lonely Tylenol

    My name is "Defendant Radzikowski"

    A bit off topic, but I have to point out that those weren't American lawyers. They were Swedish lawyers in the employ of the IFPI, which is Europe's RIAA. They had to have known that bringing new evidence after discovery had concluded would not be permitted by the judge. But they did it...
  11. Lonely Tylenol

    My name is "Defendant Radzikowski"

    And this means...what?...exactly? All the software on there is legal. I myself have µtorrent installed. What exactly are you implying here?
  12. Lonely Tylenol

    My name is "Defendant Radzikowski"

    I had to change my name from Dr. Awkward because the ENWorld system confused me with dr awkward after they switched to ENWorld 2. I could decide to call myself Al Gore, but that doesn't mean I'll get paid to hit the lecture circuit and talk about the weather.
  13. Lonely Tylenol

    Interview time - what do you want to ask WotC about their new pdf policy?

    I think Kamikaze Midget pretty much covered it, although I'll add: "Do you seriously think you are going to beat the pirates? Seriously? What the hell? I guarantee that PHB 3 will be scanned and uploaded within a week of release if not prior. What the heck do you think you can possibly do...
  14. Lonely Tylenol

    WotC puts a stop to online sales of PDFs

    Exactly. Pirates are not customers. Customers are customers...except when you refuse to sell to them, at which point they stop being customers. Rule #1 of running a successful business: Sell products to customers.
  15. Lonely Tylenol

    My name is "Defendant Radzikowski"

    Even if it is him, do you suppose that there's a high probability that anything said here will be admissible as evidence against him, considering that it would be very difficult to prove that it is, in fact, the accused who wrote the OP? Not saying he shouldn't shut his trap if he wants to...
  16. Lonely Tylenol

    Dave Arneson Death Confirmed

    Terrible news. Now that both Gygax and Arneson are gone, it really is the end of an era. It's been a bad couple of years for losing our heroes.
  17. Lonely Tylenol

    WotC puts a stop to online sales of PDFs

    Wait a minute. Are you sure you've worked in the gaming industry for as long as you claim to? What have you done with the real Charles Ryan, you cad?
  18. Lonely Tylenol

    WotC puts a stop to online sales of PDFs

    No, they name laws like George Orwell named government departments. Laws are named in such a way as to support the ideology of whomever it is that wrote the law. One might call a hypothetical law that lets police search cars without a warrant the "Protect our Children Act", because it sounds...
  19. Lonely Tylenol

    WotC puts a stop to online sales of PDFs

    Reminds me of my friend who is completely blind and relies on OCR PDFs in order to read his game books using his text reading software. I hadn't thought of him yet, but he's totally screwed for future titles.
  20. Lonely Tylenol

    WotC puts a stop to online sales of PDFs

    I don't know about you, but it seems clear to me that this poster was attempting to say that, legally, theft and copyright infringement are the same thing. Obviously, they think that both are morally wrong, but the whole "technical legal" part indicates a misunderstanding of the actual legal...
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