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I don't mean to come off as rude here, but this is probably the single most naive statement that I've ever read in regards to copyright infringement. Publishers want you to buy their books. The notion of a publisher on a high horse who doesn't want to sell a product to someone who has pirated...

In some cases, what you say is valid. It may not be fair, and it is infringement, but it's not a loss, which absolutely the only argument I'm trying to make. I'm not arguing the ethics of pirating, merely arguing that equating downloads to lost sales is faulty presumptuous thinking. However...

Looks like both of us were writing nearly the same ideas at the same time Prof. ;-)

It's already been discussed here previously, but there was a lot of derailment so I will say it again. There are many scenarios possibly involved with people who have downloaded pirated copies, and not all of them involve lost sales (though some certainly do). I can't claim to think of them...

Instead of posting more inflammatory remarks, why don't you answer the question I posed. If I had personally scanned my hardcopies and OCR'd them, put them on my laptop or thumb-drive for strictly my own personal use, would you still say that I was stealing? And for the record, I was not...

I have almost all of the 4E books in harcopy already, save for maybe a mere 2 or 3. I have bought at least one copy of every single Dungeon Tile Set made so far except the very newest set, multiple copies of some and paying the stupid price-gouging price on one set. I am also a DDI subscriber...

I stated clearly that I purchased the products (that were for sale), supported purchasing the products, am a DDI subscriber, and that people who pirated and used these items when they could have purchased them are shmucks... Insult and slander is not called for.

That's a blatant mischaracterization of what I said. I did not declare that I'm looting all their stuff for free. I declared that I've bought all their books and am a DCI subscriber, and that I fully support and encourage the purchases of the books. What I stated was that my behavior caused...

I understand you completely, it's just that when studies have been done on these subjects, they often really don't support many of the arguments made. I buy books from WotC because I like their products, I think they are worth buying, and I want to do my fair share in keeping the company...

That would be a valid point, if I were to have got them from P2P and shared them, rather than a direct download. Everything isn't about P2P you know.

Ok, but do you think they would have actually bought all of those if piracy wasn't an option? Would they have bought all of them? Would they have bought even half of those things? You should ask them sometime, "hypothetically, if all those pirated books and magazines you have were to...

Thanks for the heads up! Though... next time, can you give me a heads up in a private message a day or 2 before everyone else? ;)

Let me be upfront and say that I'm not here to defend piracy as an absolute. It certainly can cause damage, and I think that a measure of concern over it is valid, but I think a lot of it is an overreaction. I am going to confess that I have pirated copies of almost every 4E book in PDF format...

I like the idea of Hero Points, and I really like the idea of Fate Points. As much as I'd like to include them in D&D, I'm wary of too many resource types being mixed in and making the game more confusing or something. I think I'd rather come up with a way to use the existing Action Points and...

I think it's just a bit of a flavor nod toward the older D&D versions where instead of Radiant and Necrotic damage, they had Positive Energy and Negative Energy (which were associated with life and death). Many evil clerics would deal more with negative energy (harming the living and healing...

I'm more curious about what they are going to come out with than worried about the forums being down. I find the rampant speculation, conspiracy theories, and criticism to be a bit ridiculous though. It certainly could be handled better, but in the end, they are a gaming company, not an IT...

Actually, I find this to be the first reasonable suggestion I've seen regarding this. I strongly dislike cheesing teleport to make it more powerful than it was obviously intended. Vertical teleporting alone frequently doubles damage. As much as I disliked the use of forced teleportation for...

Well, they did say they'd be down until at *least* the 26th. I predict they will be back up somewhere between now and the future. :P

I'm mixed on RPGA. It's been a great way to meet other players, and to get more practice at simply playing and strengthening one's grasp of mechanics. RPGA play has corrected my understanding of a few rules. I haven't had a good roleplay experience from RPGA, and it often feels more like...

It depends on whether you mean "role playing" as a genre of games defined by the style of mechanics, or as in the act of making in-character decisions and actions. I was exposed to RPG like games through *very* old computer RPGS. I didn't know the term RPG at first, I just recognized the style...