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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4675387" data-attributes="member: 2067">The thing with piracy (which isn't theft, btw) is that the numbers don't even tell half the story. They don't even BEGIN to tell the story. The story isn't ultimately about the numbers. It's something much bigger than that.But piracy also isn't here or there -- this site wasn't engaged in piracy, really. Heck, it wasn't doing anything Shepard Fairey isn't getting sued over. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> WotC was (perhaps debatably) within their rights to ask someone who was taking the rules they wrote and publishing them to stop doing that. The reason it sucks biggest in my own opinion is because it shows a remarkable lack of foresight from WotC. They're going with the old model of tight control and protection, rather than a new model of encouraging end-user innovation, such as by offering this website a special license to continue to do what they do under WotC's watchful eye, rather than off by themselves. I can't really blame them for going with the wisdom of the ages rather than adapting here, but it's a little disappointing -- kind of like a "war on drugs," a fight against this kind of remixing is ultimately sound and fury signifying nothing (I can get marajuana if I want, and I can still get 4e rules for free if I want, and no policy or rule or barrier is ever going to be able to completely stop it, as far as anyone can see). I expected it, I don't blame them, and they're totally fair in this. I kind of wish they would choose something a little bolder and more pro-active, but I'm not going to burn them for not fulfilling my little fantasies, here. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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