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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4309450" data-attributes="member: 2067">I invented STRINGS. <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=";)" />Because you're not buying the content, you're buying the format. Nothing stopped WotC from putting out a Pocket Player's Handbook at all, even after Mongoose did theirs. And I bet it would've sold like absolute gangbusters, trouncing Mongoose's efforts. They didn't want to, probably because they didn't see a big enough market for it. The market that was there, Mongoose largely served. WotC didn't loose any money on this, Mongoose made some money, everyone wins.And, I think, assuming the movies in DVD's were allowed to be copied by anyone, if I had a VHS player, and you made a VHS rip of a DVD film for me, I would probably pay you for the tape (and maybe a few extra bucks for the service). The content was avialable for free online. Plenty of people were "leeching" by simply downloading an SRD and using that. WotC didn't care about that.I really don't think they feel that way. That's kind of what I'm saying. WotC doesn't think these things were a problem. The new GSL was not crafted because they wanted to close some loopholes. It wasn't meant to fix what was broken (because it is very debatable whether or not it was broken).It was crafted because they have brand new concerns with 4e, and they wanted a lisence that addressed those concerns specifically. They wanted to start fresh, and work from the ground up to make something that 4e needed.One of the major concerns with 4e is brand identity, so the GSL serves that purpose. I'd be pleasantly surprised if there were no piracy fears at WotC, but I believe it was also crafted to serve that purpose. WotC didn't want to specifically cut out Midnight or Tome of Horrors 4e, and they can't cut out things like Spycraft or True20 or Iron Heroes even with this GSL. They wanted specifically to serve 4e's needs, and they probably did that. If that ends up cutting off a vast swath of 3e publishers, I don't think WotC particularly cares. They weren't concerned with what had come before, they were concerned with what would be coming in the future.</blockquote>

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