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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 4029670" data-attributes="member: 94">What do you think of M&M, True20, Midnight, Arcana Unearthed? You are more concerned about the ability to shut down some pissant websites who are "ripping" content wholesale than in 3rd party publishers' ability to actually create.Wholesale ripping comes in two forms:1) Reissuing text from the SRD verbatim, by a 3rd party publisher, in a derivative work. This is a GOOD thing. That is the entire <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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" />ing purpose of the SRD-- to standardize the language and the ruleset, and to propagate the d20 system. Good lord.2) Pissant websites "ripping" OGC and posting it up. This is a risk that every publisher of OGC accepts, and short of occasionally whining, "Gee, I wish folks wouldn't do that..." it is irrelevant.There was no epidemic of publishers having their content "ripped off" by another publisher.You are concerned about a problem that simply doesn't exist.The same goes for your constant belly-aching about a "glut." The so-called glut was caused by what you like to refer to as the "professional" publishers. You know, the ones who actually had inroads to print distribution. Mongoose, Sword and Sorcery, Fantasy Flight, Green Ronin, AEG, Atlas, Bastion, Paradigm, Privateer, Necromancer Games, Goodman Games, and please forgive whoever else I am forgetting. ALL professional publishers. ALL producing quality product. ALL competing for shelf space with Wizards of the Coast.THERE is your glut.And if you think for a moment that any one of those companies isn't able to pony up 5k and cause the exact same glut, you're kidding yourself.The "glut" was not caused by hordes of "unprofessional" publishers. This is a complete canard, and if you'd like to refute it, by all means provide examples instead of repeating the same myth ad nauseam.And don't say Fast Forward Entertainment. Come back when you understand the license and are willing to put your money and your hard work on the line, and we'll see what you find relevant or not.Otherwise, you've achieved troll-dom.</blockquote>

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