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<blockquote data-quote="Merlin" data-source="post: 704310" data-attributes="member: 10154">Hmm, I don't think privacy laws here are the problems, as I already pointed out.The only privacy law I know of which could make problems here is the law that prohibits a company to give customer information to another company without consent of the customer. Now this should not be really a problem here, because I don't think any subscriber would objects. All they'd have to do would be to send them a letter to ask if this is ok.An I don't think that Paizo has something to do with it either, at least nor directly. I could imagine it's more something like Hasbro US sells their magazine to Paizo for publishing. This of course changes where and how much money flows. Hasbro UK does not agree to that deal, but they cannot do something, at least in the US. But in the UK, they simply block things. They have the money, but because the deail is not in their favor, they block it, possibly to try to get a better deal. Now, the distributor has the addresses, but as long as he doesn't get money, they wont do anything (that also explains why the first several issues went thrugh, I assume the distributor was already paid for distributing them, so he did). So, I think Hasbro UK makes the problems. After, they have the money, right?The thing with the lawyers is not easy. First of all, Hasbro UK is in a foreign country for me, so a lawyer gets expensive, VERY expensive here in Switzerland (Fr. 250/h is about 175$/h). So thats a solution that does not work for me. It may be a good idea for UK subscribers, though. And I would probably also benefit from it ;-)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Merlin, post: 704310, member: 10154"] Hmm, I don't think privacy laws here are the problems, as I already pointed out. The only privacy law I know of which could make problems here is the law that prohibits a company to give customer information to another company without consent of the customer. Now this should not be really a problem here, because I don't think any subscriber would objects. All they'd have to do would be to send them a letter to ask if this is ok. An I don't think that Paizo has something to do with it either, at least nor directly. I could imagine it's more something like Hasbro US sells their magazine to Paizo for publishing. This of course changes where and how much money flows. Hasbro UK does not agree to that deal, but they cannot do something, at least in the US. But in the UK, they simply block things. They have the money, but because the deail is not in their favor, they block it, possibly to try to get a better deal. Now, the distributor has the addresses, but as long as he doesn't get money, they wont do anything (that also explains why the first several issues went thrugh, I assume the distributor was already paid for distributing them, so he did). So, I think Hasbro UK makes the problems. After, they have the money, right? The thing with the lawyers is not easy. First of all, Hasbro UK is in a foreign country for me, so a lawyer gets expensive, VERY expensive here in Switzerland (Fr. 250/h is about 175$/h). So thats a solution that does not work for me. It may be a good idea for UK subscribers, though. And I would probably also benefit from it ;-) [/QUOTE]

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