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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spell" data-source="post: 4015314" data-attributes="member: 19718">i don't want (and can't) delve into politics (be them u.s. or worldwide), but i think there is little you can do in the way of tuning the draconic down, especially in entertainment business, these days.i'd say that WotC policy, however unacceptable, is still less draconic than, for example, the European Community having every buyer to pay a flat tax on blank CDs and DVDs because they *could* be used for piracy and they have to use that money to fight piracy and feed the corporations that lobbied the Community for such a just and fair law.so, if i want to issue a CD of music composed, played, and recorded by me (like i might, and reasonably soon, too), i still have to pay a tax to the big corporations because some dude is downloading britney spears on kazaa. and this despite the number of studies, in u.s. and elsewhere, that show how piracy has effectively zero effects on sales.in fact, forget my music, i would have to pay such a tax even if i wanted a blank dvd to store my camera's pictures!!!at least WotC is telling you upfront what they will do with your time and money.it certainly isn't likely, but he is spending money on electricity, and time he could use for working at mcdonald's, if nothing else. it sounds fair that, if he posts a description of his game world, he could at least retain the rights on it, rather than giving them to WotC.no. but let's pretend that i post a description of my game world on there, for brainstorming and discussion. then i publish it, all by myself. let's say that Wizards want to kill off competition and decide to sue me. there is no case, they win even before going to court, because all of my posts belong to them.now, this is extremely unlikely to happen with me or you or joe the gamer. but it could happen to joe game designer who is laid off WotC today and starts his company tomorrow. heck, TSR sued gygax because they claimed he had started designing a RPG game during his office time at TSR. it's not like it NEVER EVER happened before, or like one can assume that there are no dorks or... ehm.. .less than nice executives in the role playing world.funny, i dislike it on principle. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />i would be surprised of the contrary because...which makes totally business sense. why should WotC pay for having people from another gaming company discussing their products there? because we are all friends? mmmh... i don't know about that...</blockquote>

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