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While I don't think it is that easy to download any product at any time, there do exist channels out there where you can get very nearly any RPG product - regardless of whether it was ever released in a form other than hard copy - for download within 72 hours. That's not quite "any product at...

Ah, but the point of copyright is not to enrich the creator, but to enrich the public. As it is set up now, the creator gets 99.99% of the benefit. I don't think that's equitable. I may agree with you that Britney Spears' stuff will be worthless in 15 years. If so, why are we giving record...

Only a Sith deals in absolutes! :) --The Sigil

Not really. In the second half, the "little guy" is the "guy sharing on the internet" - that's publishing a work (small-scale). :) Sorry, I didn't mean it to be loaded... perhaps I should say, "the big fish and the little fish." I just thought of "Shark" when I thought of "animal that eats...

I'm not sure what the alternative is. I know the current system is horribly broken, however, and that something needs to change. I personally think copyright law - at least in its present incarnation - is unworkable. From my vantage point, there are four major changes that can be made to make...

Here's one of the quirks I find amusing about copyright in its current incarnation: Copyright was originally created to protect "the little guy" - a writer/publisher - from the "piratical booksellers" - the big corporate conglomerates that would get a copy of his work and then reprint it en...

"For most of human history, we have not had copyright, and art has still been generated, and powerfully so." And the "counter-counter-argument" to this goes, "that's because they had patrons." And thus art is monopolized by the rich and only generated through their largesse; there is no way...

From the beginning, it has been noted that "copyright" is a form of abridgement of "Free Speech." As to whether it is wrong an unethical to make that "property"... a tough call. I'll go with MacAuley (again)... I have to agree in that I am willing to submit to some form of copyright in order...

Best point in the theft/copyright infringement battle I've seen in a LONG time (here and elsewhere). Mind if I file that away for future use? And may I reproduce it? --The Sigil

I should note one other thing. There's a reason I've tried to steer clear of the "theft/infringement" debate here (which goes back and forth, etc.). I think it's because of the way I look at problems. When there is a problem, we resort to the six basic questions: Who? What? Where? How...

Actually, I can think of one great example off the top of my head that survives in copyright law today... the advent of player pianos. Old technology: a musician playing sheet music on a piano. New technology: a piano playing itself thanks to a "digital translation" of the music (as expressed...

By the way, this is actually one of the things that vexes me about copyright law. Would you object if the "magic molecular rearrangement machine" became available? That is to say, would you say I was "stealing from Ford/GM/Toyota/insert company here" by using my "magic molecular rearrangement...

No, I think he's trying to say that publishers shouldn't look at it as 136 x $28 = $3,808 out of their pockets. While the analogy is imperfect, because a library is legal, I don't think the Encyclopedia Brittanica thinks that the 50 people who use a $20 volume of the Encyclopedia in the library...

I hope this isn't too political, but here goes. I will speak only for US law, since that is where I live and that is the law I am familiar with. Obviously, different regions of the world have slightly different laws... Copyright is just that - the right to control the creation of "copies"...

Furthermore, in D&D many of the synonyms have been co-opted to have definitions in and of themselves specific to the game. Let's look at the list of synonyms provided for "Magic" abracadabra alchemy - Coopted by the skill "Alchemy" and later renamed Craft (alchemy) - Used as a skill specific...

I'd love to go, but the timing is really bad... I'm in the middle of selling my house right now. :( So, unfortunately, S.T. Cooley Publishing will not have a representative at the ENnies ceremony... though if anyone can make a videotape or audio tape and send me a copy, that'd be cool - the...

Michael... Rather than killing your inbox, here are links to the Buy the Numbers cover and the S.T. Cooley Publishing logo, in PNG format per your request. http://www.stcooleypublishing.com/images/buythenumbers.png http://www.stcooleypublishing.com/images/stcpublogo.png --The Sigil

I didn't remember "varáz" from my Hungarian (and though I'm not a native speaker, I'm about as close as you'll find), and when I did a little thinking, I realized I think you mean "Varázs" (with a trailing "s") and it's pretty much the same thing as "charisma" - to apply it on its own to magic...

As instructed by the FAQs: S.T. Cooley Publishing would like to request publisher's access to post product information for reviews using this account. Thanks! --The Sigil

pogre - Yeah, I know folks using Buy the Numbers might have a complaint. As to why not including "other" is useful - I guess because it "forces" folks to actually leave a comment rather than just click "other" and leave the thread. ;) Biggest surprise for me - as of right now, the "four old...