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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zulithe" data-source="post: 2537526" data-attributes="member: 4708">After reading the discussion here, I'm going to give DM Genie a try. I love PCGen and I think eTools is a flawed yet feature-full product (can't wait for CMP's next tool! looks great) but for now, after seeing the screenshots, DM Genie looks right up my alley.I can't for the life of me see the sharing of datasets as a crime. If I buy a WotC book, I technically have the right to produce my own dataset for PCGen, DM Genie, eTools or whatever else I like, do I not? So, what if I met someone on the internet who happened to also own the book, and already had done the data entering for themselves? What is so wrong about sharing it?I disagree with the book/movie analogy. If I owned the book, and downloaded the movie off of the internet then that would be stealing. But, if I owned the book, and I made my own movie based on the book, and showed it only to people who also owned the book, and I was not looking to make a single penny off of this, then I see no theft.Did any of you download and watch that fan-made Batman movie "Dead End"? Pretty good, wasn't it? I liken it to that.The only thing "wrong" is that companies are seeing opportunity to make extra money and are upset when people find clever ways around it instead. And in my eyes, these people are doing nothing immoral.</blockquote>