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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6254726" data-attributes="member: 82106">I doubt anyone here is a lawyer (I certainly am not), but its pretty doubtful anything suggested in this thread is illegal or violates anything. WotC hit CBLoader with a C&D as I understand it, but all that means is they didn't LIKE it, not that it is actually violating anything. Certainly if you had DDI back when the old CB was distributed you're still allowed to use it, etc. WotC specifically DOES allow you to use software to access the Compendium. As to whether or not storing a copy of that info on your hard drive is OK or not is at the very least a deeply controversial point of law, certainly not clearly bad (giving the data to someone would be). Likewise Masterplan got a C&D, and then the Compendium DLing stuff got split out, but nobody has ever really established that you can't legally use it if you're a DDI subscriber. There's no doubt that this is all a grey area, but frankly I'm going to use data that I pay to access in whatever way I want for my personal use, certainly until someone can clearly demonstrate that doing so is illegal or violates some civil code. At that point I'll just stop paying my taxes and revolt anyway...</blockquote>