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Message: <blockquote data-quote="madelf" data-source="post: 2688056" data-attributes="member: 15415">Huh. I never noticed that.Still, I see a minor difference between a link to an outside review, and a review reproduced right on the store page. The link at RPGnow actually sends you to a different page (at RPGnet) to read the review. A link to a review is slightly different than incorporating the actual review. A quibble? Perhaps. Either way, I'd also be in support of a reviewer who wanted his reviews removed from RPGnet due to their use by RPGnow. Now, to be clear, I don't think there's anything "wrong with it" or that it's an Evil Thing for either store to use the reviews, I just think the reviewer should have some choice in where their review appears (if it matters to them for whatever reasons of their own), unless they have chosen to give up that choice.I imagine they'd have them talk to RPGnow. And then it would depend on the rights assigned. Unless RPGnow has the rights to use the reviewers work in that way, there wouldn't be much to say. If RPGnow does have such rights, then the reviewer would be out of luck. Either way it doesn't mean the reviewer can't make the request, or register his displeasure at the way his review is being used.Sorry, I should have been clearer. I was quoting you, but (while responding to you) I was also attempting to explain my own motivation in posting. There was a general tone, from multiple posters, that seemed to say something along the lines of "You posted it online, what did you expect? Of course people are going to use it any way they want to." and it was that tone, rather than any particular post, that I have been trying to address. You see, I don't think that expectation is valid in a situation like this. The acceptance of people grabbing whatever they want "because it's the internet" is, of course, widespread; and when it's just some guy doing it for personal use, I don't see it as an issue. But when a business starts doing it, then it becomes an issue, and that "of course it'll happen" dismissive-ness is misplaced. It shouldn't be "expected" that a business will do that.So it was more of an additional comment, or emphasis, than a true disagreement, if that makes any sense (probably doesn't).</blockquote>

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