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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Amrûnril" data-source="post: 9288234" data-attributes="member: 6841183">A key feature of our legal system is that both parties in a dispute have rights. If you pressure the other party into accepting a settlement before they can apprise themselves of their rights, you are behaving unethically, even if you remain within the letter of the law. WotC, in the MtG cards dispute, claims to have made several contact attempts, but they conspicuously refrained from using any form of communication that would  leave a paper trail or allow the recipient to contact a lawyer before responding.Of course, "pressure" is something of an understatement when talking about sending private armed guards to someone's house. Frankly, the underlying idea that private agents should be allowed to do the work of law enforcement while being accountable to an individual or corporation rather than to the public is mind boggling to me. But even if one accepts the existence of such organizations, deploying them as WotC did is simply not a reasonable response to a contract/IP dispute where the worst damage (a mild disruption of marketing plans) is already done.</blockquote>