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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5496984" data-attributes="member: 82106">The thing is cbloader works by merging your content, or whatever you get from 3rd parties, into the CB database. There's no need to copy anything owned by WotC in this process. You get/make a house rules file, use the tool to merge it, and then just run CB. Anything that belongs to WotC remains totally distinct from your own stuff. In fact that was the whole idea. People discovered they could pretty easily edit the CB database (XML files, not too hard to hack on). The problem was updates would then obliterate your changes. cbloader is just an XML merge. You make your changes in a separate file that won't get nuked by an update. After each update you just merge your edits back in.Obviously if someone clones text from newer WotC material they might run into a copyright issue, but that's not the fault of cbloader any more than it is the fault of a PDF authoring tool if you paste someone else's text into your PDF and distribute it.Yes, section 6 of the EULA does allow WotC to terminate people's use of the old CB. That still wouldn't make cbloader illegal, it is up to you to comply with the terms of your license. cbloader doesn't allow you to bypass any technical protection measures (there are none to bypass) either, so again the DMCA can't be used to say it facilitates violating the license.Section 2 (IIRC) also forbids 'derivative works'. Again, it is up to WotC to decide to terminate your license. Since you're also only creating a 'derivative' that you use personally it isn't even clear this is applicable. Maybe an argument could be made that cbloader ITSELF is a derivative work, I don't really know.</blockquote>

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