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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 8650781" data-attributes="member: 7808">An actual business update instead of just people fighting on social media!NuTSR is now offering their rating/labeling system for other publishers to use.  Free for a limited time (?).[ATTACH=full]249747[/ATTACH]Attached is a PDF of how it works (generated from their website).On the surface, not a ridiculous idea.  Lots of industries have their own ratings systems that are legitimately useful for consumers.  Movies, music, and video games all have their own systems.But this also shows how little NuTSR understands about, well, anything.  First, I'm pretty sure it's impossible to make something like this open source "for a limited time".  Once you've released the IP (images, rating system) into the wild, it's free.  I'm guessing the plan is to get people using it for free, then extort them for fees to continue using it.  And IANAL, but I'm also sure that just won't fly in court.Second, they've basically lifted the ratings from the ESRB: <a href="https://www.esrb.org/ratings-guide/" target="_blank">Ratings Guides, Categories, Content Descriptors | ESRB Ratings</a>  The ESRB actually has copyright on their logos, system, and IP.  You can't just copy it.  I predict this won't last long.Third, they clearly just don't understand how ratings work.  There's a lot of legitimate discussion that could be had about how to set up a rating system for RPGs and how it would be run/managed.  But it's a high level discussion that requires and understanding (and certain amount of control) about IP, distribution channels, industry leaders, and many other factors.  This simply isn't how it ratings systems are used.</blockquote>

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