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But in that thread about Lorraine Williams, you stated yourself that "gamers deserve to be dismissed sometimes". It's a little ironic that you're getting upset now because somebody is dismissing your POV. I think the big thing in those threads are just people getting "meh" about WoTC...

While there is legal terminology, other things complicate it. For instance, part of the copyright statute in the US includes the NET Act, or "No Electronic Theft Act", established in 1997. NET Act: 17 U.S.C. and 18 U.S.C. as amended (redlined) This act, while still sticking to the term...

I wonder if Wizards might try something with a non-intrusive form of DRM. One positive thing they might do (and I'd encourage) is consider releasing the products on something like Steam or iTunes. That seems pretty effective in stoping piracy of their games, supports authentication, etc. Of...

I can't call it a simple case of that, for the following reasons. First of all, did any of the honest people do anything to stop piracy? Did you report any torrents to WoTC? Did you try to encourage people not to do it. Did you explain to your friends about this? I'm sure some did, but I'm...

Well, Keep in mind the formal SI, the "metric system" was only established in 1960 and only started being formally placed into measurement was in the 1970s. So before that, Imperial and Metric systems were more of an influence battle between England/US influenced countries and those using the...

I was gonna say an old issue of Dragon when they had the Ares section, but you beat me to it. The only thing I remember is that it was eventually said instead of a stand-alone game it would be an expansion to Star Frontiers. There's no connection to anything NIPI did--I was just wondering if...

What's even more perplexing about any Cyborg rules--don't have the Gamma World book in question--but at one time TSR was going to release a game called "Proton Fire", which was all about Robots, Psiborgs or Psybots, Andriods, etc. Eventually, it was decided that instead of its own game it would...

Y'know, maybe James Lowder, who's reading this thread, can provide insight into the strategies regarding Buck Rogers--since I saw him listed as one of the editors on that unofficial Buck Rogers site.

Actually, Flash was created as competition to Buck Rogers, much like Captain "Shazam" Marvel was to Superman. Buck was fighting "Mongols", the warlords who were lead by Killer Kane and Ardala.

One weird thing about it is that the XXVc game was copyright TSR, so it's mechanics, and perhaps some elements of the setting itself, are still owned by WoTC. The game had the Buck Rogers license, and royalties were using it, but IIRC they always made sure to keep the copyright and trademarks...

No, if you read scholar's and Christopher's own writings, he sold the rights to pay a tax debt, a rather stupid mistake, based on his own wishes and the fact that the family now has limited control over that stuff. And despite complaints about that, Christopher was named by Tolkien as the sole...

Well, from what I could tell, the TV show had a lot of problems as well. If you watch it today, there are a lot of flaws. (One thing disturbing me was the amount of use of chemicals for interrogation and capture, sort of a "date rape" acceptance. Maybe that came from the 70s.). And of course...

In this particular case, I'd rather have the creator's wishes followed than what the fans might want. JRRT didn't really want any of his stuff adapted to movies. And the movie industry has a way of (a) disrespecting the creators and (b) screwing them out of deserved royalties.

If you defend being judgemental, why are you attacking the others who are judging Lorraine Williams? You're the one who started the argument saying our community "deserves to be dismissed". And with the CB thing, you are overlooking the fact that she ranted about gamers in general for 10...

Regardless of either Monte or Gary's opinion, you've got her lying on a web site about creating TSR, and using her position as top dog at TSR to funnel money into her own pockets via the Buck Rogers licenses, something that doesn't look good. Lack of ethics doesn't usually make a person that...

Unfortunately, by other points, she went quite beyond just "dismissing gamers". The best quotes from the other thread were by Jose Feritas, a person who had interacted directly with Lorraine... It's one thing for a company manager to get upset at so-called "nerd rage", as I know many creative...

That Buck Rogers web site didn't mention D&D, but TSR. It was Gygax and Kaye who were the original founders. Dave joined temporarily as did Brian Blume. When the partnership disbanded the new company was Gygax and Blume.

Actually, there IS renewed interest in the property, since the whole reason that site is up there is because there's a new comic coming out and Frank Miller is doing a Buck Rogers movie. (Although good luck with that, after the Spirit has flopped I don't believe Miller's take on old properties...

Until the law and the governments catches up. You seem to think P2P file sharing will go on without interference, but there's a lot you look over. 1) The same technology that allows encryption, anonymization, etc., can be countered. For hackers we have anti-spyware, anti-virus, etc. For...

Technology can still be regulated. Just because the technology exists doesn't mean it will be adopted or can't be restricted. Don't delude yourself and think that. Here are some examples. We have nuclear weapons. Outside of testing they haven't been used in war since Nagasaki. We have the...