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Not entirely as there are multiple choices here. I'm saying the value of the intellectual property is decreased because of thexistance of the free service that is operating in violaiton of WotC's copyrights. The value of the intellectual property can be realized in several ways in this...

Re-read my edited post where I used the case of the OP as an example. edit: and you must have hit "save" at the same time I hit "Quote".

What is risked is the value of the copyrights. IF you will not enforce them, then the value decreases. I will use the case described in the OP as an example. Web site "A" provides a free service where you, the user, can produce a PDF file of power cards you can print out. This seems innocuous...

I am not accountable for educating you as to what is considered risk in business.

I said you RISK them. And you do. Risk involves loss of anything, but from a business standpoint, your greatest risks always involve loss of revenue. Maybe you should learn more about the corporate world before you decry what corporations have to do to insure viability.

AND WE HAVE A WINNER! If you cannot enforce your copyrights, they are worthless.

My first computer had a cassette tape recorder. My second computer had two 5 1/4" 360K floppy disk drives (they were dual sided and ROCKED, but it was hard to find dual sided disks).

Because internet polls have no validity as there is no way to insure people voted accruately and no way to calculate a margin of error, thus it wiould be a waste of time as bnothing could actually be proved by the data.

Yes, you can risk your copyrights. And "will" is something that can be checked via an instrument called "discovery". Corporations document activities and documents must be produced in the discovery phase of litigation. You don't know much about IP litigation, do you?

I purchased dozens upon dozens of 2E PDFs. I wish I had pirated copies before doing so because had I known how poor the quality of about 25% were, I would have never purchased them and would have instead scanned them myself since I own a hard copy of literally every 2E product produced. As it...

Six months after the fact. Again, the illegal activity is so widespread that it is impossible to keep up with it. It's about the most lidiotic business activity possible! IF WotC were STUPID ENOUGH to purposefully allow a site to violate their copyright in some lamebreained scheme for market...

To try and keep up with it would require many full time employees, so yes. It's far easier to stoke the fires of suspicion with conspiracy theories about evil intent.

What you suggest is not an activity any legitimate business would engage in as doing so would put their IP at risk. I say this as an employee of a company that as the sole source of its revenue, produces IP. We, as a comapny, are aware our IP is pirated because all IP companies have their IP...

Google "PDF Editor". Every PDF can be unique with minimal effort, regardless fo the original source.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The single best bet for good D&D advertisement via Cinema would be to do a live action Drizz't movie. Bar none, he's the favorite character and has made inroads outside the D&D community. Your effort shines. WotC should take notice and put forth an...

So you'd have the world stuff the toothpaste back into a tube that got squeezed out more than two decades ago? Copying software in 1985 was called "piracy" back then. The toothpaste is out of the tube. You can try stuffing it back into the tube all you want, it simply won't go back in. No, I'd...

Going with Occam's Razor would suggest the Power Cards site was not brought to the attention of the appropriate parties within WotC management until January 5 as that is a far simpler answer than to suggest a wide ranging evil conspiracy.

Yes, but will you buy the power cards when they are released?

Interesting, though I must say not surprising, development. I wonder if a fan site policy is ever coming.

I think that I shall call them,... MINI-MELF!