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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4790946" data-attributes="member: 19675">Once upon a time, I was that guy: <a href="http://xkcd.com/386/" target="_blank">xkcd - A Webcomic - Duty Calls</a>...Especially when it came to matters dealing with protecting intellectual property- my profession IS Entertainment Lawyer, after all.But when the firestorm erupted about WotC's recent change in pdf policy (preceded by a couple of heated threads about piracy in general), I stopped.I went back over a couple of the piracy threads I'd participated in over the years.I noticed I was seeing the same posters posting the same (erroneous) assertions about the law, posts defending questionable moral/ethical positions, etc.- even after I pointed out legal texts and court decisions to the contrary, or tracts from the giants of philosophy and other moral/ethical theorists.IOW, my efforts changed nothing.So in Post #43 (of <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/off-topic-forum-currently-named-hapax-legomenon/247753-new-years-resolutions-2009-a-3.html#post4750699" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/off-topic-forum-currently-named-hapax-legomenon/247753-new-years-resolutions-2009-a-3.html#post4750699</a>) I resolved to abstain from any and all threads about this area- I haven't even visited the temporary forum ENWorld has set up.I won't say its easy, either.&nbsp; I see some of those thread titles pop up and I can feel my pulse and respiration quicken and my face flush.&nbsp; I can hear my blood rush in my ears, and feel my blood pressure rise.I want to rush in.&nbsp; I want to rush in like a rhetorical Paladin championing the cause of the various creators of IP.&nbsp; I've seen 1st hand what piracy does to them.Then I remember I'm not getting paid to do it here, and go post in a Hive thread, &quot;Help me create&quot; a character or campaign thread, or something else much more enjoyable than tilting at windmills.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 4790946, member: 19675"] Once upon a time, I was that guy: [url=http://xkcd.com/386/]xkcd - A Webcomic - Duty Calls[/url] ...Especially when it came to matters dealing with protecting intellectual property- my profession IS Entertainment Lawyer, after all. But when the firestorm erupted about WotC's recent change in pdf policy (preceded by a couple of heated threads about piracy in general), I stopped. I went back over a couple of the piracy threads I'd participated in over the years. I noticed I was seeing the same posters posting the same (erroneous) assertions about the law, posts defending questionable moral/ethical positions, etc.- even after I pointed out legal texts and court decisions to the contrary, or tracts from the giants of philosophy and other moral/ethical theorists. IOW, my efforts changed nothing. So in Post #43 (of [url]http://www.enworld.org/forum/off-topic-forum-currently-named-hapax-legomenon/247753-new-years-resolutions-2009-a-3.html#post4750699[/url]) I resolved to abstain from any and all threads about this area- I haven't even visited the temporary forum ENWorld has set up. I won't say its easy, either. I see some of those thread titles pop up and I can feel my pulse and respiration quicken and my face flush. I can hear my blood rush in my ears, and feel my blood pressure rise. I want to rush in. I want to rush in like a rhetorical Paladin championing the cause of the various creators of IP. I've seen 1st hand what piracy does to them. Then I remember I'm not getting paid to do it here, and go post in a Hive thread, "Help me create" a character or campaign thread, or something else much more enjoyable than tilting at windmills. [/QUOTE]

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