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Okay, then explain to me why it's a straw man argument. If it is a straw man it should easily be defeatable and knocked down. Saying "it's a straw man" is in itself, another straw man argument, it's an attempt to ignore it and instead make an ad hominem attack. I made a basic analogy that...

What I see as the straw man is the people parrotting "you can't stop piracy no matter how hard you try". Well, that can be applied to everything. Counterfeiting, like piracy, causes financial damage, it's just the government and citizens are the victims rather than a corporation or individual...

You also can't stop counterfeiting. Should the governments of the world just let it go? (I really hate the paralogical statement about "we should ignore piracy, because you can't stop it". We should also stop wiping our rears, because they're just gonna get dirty again! Or we should ignore...

Being a minor is no excuse, nor is living in a so-called "third world country". He obviously had access to computer and a credit card, this can't be a starving ignorant boy in a shanty. He broke the law and WoTC is in the right to go after him. And from what I understand, it's not illegal to...

Court cases work like this. You file first at the court, and then a process server attempts to send official notification to the defendants. The filing at the court happens first. You worry about getting in touch with them before the actual trial, not before things are filed. You have to...

You don't lose copyright, but if you don't prosecute known violations, it might make your case weaker if you sue another party later. They can argue you knew about it but didn't sue. This is why they enter lawsuits against the foreign citizens as well as the domestic. The whole PR mess is...

PR doesn't mean squat if it means losing your rights. When you discover copyright violations, you are obligated to defend them. If you don't, that non-action can be used against you later. The only thing that might be the PR hit is taking down the PDFs from sales. However, I suspect they're...

I would say Arneson is more like Steve Ditko to Gygax's Stan Lee, mainly because his output in the hobby hasn't been as huge, and Gary's remembered not just because of D&D, but for Advanced D&D, Greyhawk, numerous modules etc. So I doubt he'll ever have the same mainstream coverage as EGG did...

Since people are mentioning foreign countries, I wonder if WoTC might decide on a strategy to not allow PDF sales outside the US and Canada, either stopping sales in the EU or at lease delaying sales to those people until a few months have passed. That's another possibility why they've pulled...

I strongly suggest if you are who you say you are, to not speak about the case and get an attorney. Even if they can't prosecute you because you are in a foreign country, your statements could be used against you in the court proceedings.

Assuming you're talking about the court case documents... I've seen other PACER documents that are in that format. I guess it depends if they send Word or WordPerfect files to the court, or if the court just scans the document. FYI, feel free to pass these documents around--they are part of...

Well, it could be very difficult depending on the stenography. And you could add random pixels to each one as well--akin to a "salt" (hashing term), to prevent you from removing the watermark. I don't think a simple file compare will find it that easily. I doubt it's a simple "single pixel"...

I fully suspected watermarked PDFs weren't just visible ones but invisible ones as well. Perhaps that's why Wizards might be pulling the PDFs. They probably know once this gets out a lot of pirates might be aware of the watermark and work on expunging it. So they might want to now move to a...

Interesting point from one of the lawsuits... It goes on to say that's how they got identified...

I placed the documents in the official docket here: http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/254013-pdfs-court-cast.html Feel free to move it there. I figured it's better to fork the thread (and maybe avoid a slashdot effect).

Okay, All of you are curious of the Lawsuit. Here are the public records of the existing lawsuits. The ZIP files are each separate suits. The Letter Codes are the initials of the judges. These are public records so there is no law or secret violations of me posting these. Seems a...

Actually, I see them NOW!! I'll have them in a few minutes. It's cheaper to get them from PACER. I don't feel like Transcribing the PDFs, though. Would there be a place to attach PDF files here?

Actually, Courts can seal parts of the cases from the official record. You can keep specific business affairs out from the public eye. The defendants and their lawyers can see them, but in many cases courts will respect a companies right to privacy, and specific documents can either carry a...

The Internet can detect traffic of specific pirated goods from torrents and from deep packet sniffing, or signature detection. You make estimates based on the following. Incidents of specific products being pirated. Compare those incidents to sales of products. Use Algebra and perhaps some...