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<blockquote data-quote="Dahak" data-source="post: 7690169" data-attributes="member: 784">I believe copyright exists, as much as any other imaginary thing exists. I also know it is up to the rights holder to defend their IP. It's not your job, and it damn sure isn't mine. I've never complained when a rights holder took legal action. I didn't even complain when Osama Hussein, ESQ's office sent me a DMCA takedown notice for downloading an episode of Spartacus over bittorrent. It was their job to protect the rights holder. Good on them.Via an attorney, I've even defended my own IP, as I've seen fit, and I encourage you to do so for your own. But I'm not paid by Disney&nbsp; or Paramount or EA to defend their IP. And I doubt you are either. Sure, I won't buy from Outlaw Press, because of a request from the rights holders, but I'm not going to avoid downloading an unlicensed Star Trek clone just because some geek with no actual connection to the IP thinks it's not okay.&nbsp; If you're actually just telling me that geeks like to argue about everything, fine. Fair enough. I, however, would rather play a game than waste time arguing about its legality/politically correctness/etc. while never actually playing it; that's the sort of navel gazing crap that turned RPGnet into the butt of a joke that it is now. I was really hoping that ENWorld was still about actual gaming and not click bait political topics, but here we are.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dahak, post: 7690169, member: 784"] I believe copyright exists, as much as any other imaginary thing exists. I also know it is up to the rights holder to defend their IP. It's not your job, and it damn sure isn't mine. I've never complained when a rights holder took legal action. I didn't even complain when Osama Hussein, ESQ's office sent me a DMCA takedown notice for downloading an episode of Spartacus over bittorrent. It was their job to protect the rights holder. Good on them. Via an attorney, I've even defended my own IP, as I've seen fit, and I encourage you to do so for your own. But I'm not paid by Disney or Paramount or EA to defend their IP. And I doubt you are either. Sure, I won't buy from Outlaw Press, because of a request from the rights holders, but I'm not going to avoid downloading an unlicensed Star Trek clone just because some geek with no actual connection to the IP thinks it's not okay. If you're actually just telling me that geeks like to argue about everything, fine. Fair enough. I, however, would rather play a game than waste time arguing about its legality/politically correctness/etc. while never actually playing it; that's the sort of navel gazing crap that turned RPGnet into the butt of a joke that it is now. I was really hoping that ENWorld was still about actual gaming and not click bait political topics, but here we are. [/QUOTE]

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