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Yeeeeah... that's -such- a bad take on top of everything else. The solution to the problem should never be "Hire mercenaries to act outside the law". Terrible way to go.

Every one in a discussion determines whether something is being done in good faith or bad faith. Ultimately they get to choose to disengage, after all. The fact that your tone has been dismissive, hostile, and rude throughout the discussion leads to me thinking it's in bad faith. Me providing...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_(detective_agency) Is it? Is it REALLY spare? Look, there's them spying on warehouse workers for signs of union activity (contributing to Bezos' union busting activities) just like Faolyn said. There's also them hiring an unlicensed security guard who...

As a relevant note to the folks trying to pretend the Pinkertons weren't a big deal: They were sent to raid the -home- of Dan Cannon. A Youtuber who leaked information on the new Magic the Gathering set. They forced themselves into his home, damaged his home and property, and stole the items...

Only if all the printers charge the same amount and all tariffs are equal. They are not. Shipping books from the EU to the US now faces big tariffs that shipping internally in the US from a printer would not incur. Similarly, the costs to print in China are cheaper than the US or EU, and then...

Would you mind annexing Wisconsin and Minnesota? We're practically Canada already... Then you could buy my stuff!

I don't see this going well for TTRPG gamers. So much of what's published comes from outside the US into it, and it's going to result in higher prices probably no matter what any individual publisher wants to do. There's only so much cost they can eat, after all, especially as the tariffs get...

Hmm... Copyright law allows them to issue a takedown... Got to Law to settle disputes. HMMMMMMMMM It's almost like having a small army of lawyers looking for every possible copyright infringement to slap with a DMCA takedown is, by it's nature, an example of their litigiousness. Much like...

Ah, I see. We're not allowed to discuss how companies are made up of people and that people use emotionally abusive rhetoric and gaslighting to manipulate public perception of them and the people or companies they work with or for. Cooooooooooooool. Cool cool cool cool cool. With deep...

Oh. No. It's not out of a malice or disdain or anything. It's just that WotC is a deeply litigious company and developed a system to enact that litigiousness every chance it gets. And sometimes that litigiousness results in backlash. Like when they hired the Pinkertons. My issue is, entirely...

They're using Mistake to present it as an Accident and apologizing for an accident. Rather than apologizing for the real problem: Being deeply litigious and flinging takedown orders at everything they can. That is the deflection. "We're sorry there was an accidental takedown order." The...

Yeah, that's not how they're presenting it. "We didn't mean to do it." is their use of mistake, here. They are trying to deflect blame, not apologize. There is a big difference.

The issue is: That's still not a mistake. Lemme let Picard explain it: Everything worked as intended. Every process triggered in an appropriate manner based on what it was designed to do. And they successfully DMCA'd a proper target for that action. There was no mistake in the triggering of...