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I was looking for OOP stuff yesterday, and I ran across this ... http://www.svgames.com/tsr11448.html This morning I saw your post. (I have the archive, and I greatly enjoy it.)

What this comes down to is the action, not the intention. (Although the intention might have an effect on the penalty, if you can convince a judge that you are telling the truth.) If you shoplift a book with the full intention of simply browsing through it that night to sneak it back in the...

You're welcome, and thank you. I am also quite grateful to ENWorld for the opportunities to engage in stimulating discussions of this nature. I think that the basic ability to discuss different points of views, even (perhaps especially) those that differ at a fundamental, philosophical...

A Tiny, Tiny Tangent Where are you at? I'd pay $20 for the Dragonomicon; please don't tell me it was at the Corpus Christi Half-Price and I missed it! (The Corpus Christi Half-Price does have a surprising amount of 3e.)

In the academic world, there exist direct rewards for publishing material. Due to the importance of peer review in the scientific process, frequent publication is the ideal and there exist mechanisms to reward this that are quite separate from the idea of obtaining direct profit through the...

I suggest using The Sigil's terminology of "processed idea" to avoid the image of a paranoid fantasy of stopping "idea transmission." I.e., if you think that a prestige class using battle-doughnuts would be cool, that's one thing, but if you post or download "The Quintessential Baker" (assuming...

You say that you download material freely, especially music, and you say that your friends are in error by not paying for work they can download freely. How does that track?

Now, here at least we can possibly clear up one source of confusion. Later in the post that I am responding to, you said "I did not say any such thing. I didn't put words in your mouth to argue against, so please don't do the same to me." Your accusation that I was putting words in your mouth...

You have not made the case that the author has lost nothing. There are quite a number of posts arguing exactly the opposite, and to ignore all of those - and the rest of the post that you are quoting - to revert to simply a proclamation that nothing is stolen if no paper leaves the store it not...

That might be how one rationalizes it as one steals it (as you boast that you have), but I think that the bigger effect is the ease involved in stealing a copy and the perception of limited risk. An item perceived of as overpriced might have a higher apparent theft threshold as it has a lower...

As I mentioned in an earlier post, there are ways to address a ludricrously overstated price. In the case of example #1, this does not give one the "right" to steal an apple from you, and - in this case- the value of the apple will not be held by a judge to be equivalent to your price. I know...

I don't think that the pool of ideas is necessarily finite. This pops up every now and then "History is over", "everything has been done". Consider that "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." was written about 2300 years ago...

But are they different in a meaningful way? What if the bookstore burns down that night, or if the thief is arrested much later, after the bookstore goes out of business with two copies of the book still on the shelf? Is the thief less cupable if no "loss" is incurred by the store? At the...

Huzzah! It must be mine!

To be proper, I caught 1/3 the class engaged in what I would consider serious cheating during the semester; since I can conceive of a number of ways in which cheating could have been done that were undetectable by what I was doing, it is only proper to note that the number is the absolute...

Well, the name the friend came up with (independently) was "Hatrack Games", so I'm not saying that OSC wouldn't have a legitimate point, but the quote was interesting in the context of what I had heard about OSC, which I cannot vouch for, and so pile on disclaimer after disclaimer.

Precise language vs. "yer jes usin jargon!", or "if it didn't need technical terms to describe technical concepts it wouldn't be complex enough to warrent discussing." Actually, I thought that was a concise summation of a lot of germane material. I hope this makes future discussions more...

UFO's are seen all the time. Making the leap that clearly an observer would immediately recognize a natural phenomena, or what "intelligent behavior" is, and that therefore UFO's are aliens/demons,transdimensional travellers, etc., is the leap...

The impression that I have received is that it is the use of the word "idea" that may be causing much of the problem, as the use of the word is changing during the course of each discussion, and different uses are being applied even in the same paragraph. Please reread the post that your...

To say that the electronic theft represents what the creator "would never have gotten" presumes a 'God's-eye' view in which it's possible to claim that the thief would never have valued the material enough to buy it when the thief did value it enough to steal it. Removing the material shows...