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What will Masterplan be after the C&D?
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<blockquote data-quote="mudbunny" data-source="post: 5187793" data-attributes="member: 56746"><p>My guess is that they are not claiming the data. (Keep in mind that as far as I know, no-one outside of WOtC and the developers of Masterplan have seen the C&D.) My guess is that the C&D was over Masterplan providing a way for users to (a) automatically download the data of a large part of the compendium; and (b) easily share the information with other Masterplan users, giving them (the other masterplan users) the data from the compendium, even if they had never had a DDI account.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You can if the person writing a program to use the API does so in a manner which goes against the ToS of the service accessed by the API.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Actually, I think that it would be closer to Apple suing a guy who had made a plug-in for the App Store that allowed you to download music in a manner which stripped the DRM from the music. (back when iTunes music automatically had DRM applied to it.)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But WotC has the right to ask Masterplan to stop providing a program that enables users to trivially violate theie ToS. (Keep in mind that a C&D order is a request, not an order. Someone can, if they feel that they are in the right, ignore a C&D and take their chances with the lawyers.)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Except that iPlay4e doesn't host any of the compendium data on it;'s site. Not to mention that it doesn't provide you access to the compendium data unless you have an active DDI subscription.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There isn't going to be a case. The guys from MP are complying with the request. However (IANAL), if it did go to court, WotC would have a strong argument that the program was designed for the sole purpose of extracting data from the compendium and packaging it in a way so that the user no longer needed to use the DDI service to get at the Compendium, unless there are other websites that Masterplan could be pointed at to extract information from automatically.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Have you ever looked at the output of a character builder file?? It is a plain-text file and has *no* power data in it. It references the compendium.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mudbunny, post: 5187793, member: 56746"] My guess is that they are not claiming the data. (Keep in mind that as far as I know, no-one outside of WOtC and the developers of Masterplan have seen the C&D.) My guess is that the C&D was over Masterplan providing a way for users to (a) automatically download the data of a large part of the compendium; and (b) easily share the information with other Masterplan users, giving them (the other masterplan users) the data from the compendium, even if they had never had a DDI account. You can if the person writing a program to use the API does so in a manner which goes against the ToS of the service accessed by the API. Actually, I think that it would be closer to Apple suing a guy who had made a plug-in for the App Store that allowed you to download music in a manner which stripped the DRM from the music. (back when iTunes music automatically had DRM applied to it.) But WotC has the right to ask Masterplan to stop providing a program that enables users to trivially violate theie ToS. (Keep in mind that a C&D order is a request, not an order. Someone can, if they feel that they are in the right, ignore a C&D and take their chances with the lawyers.) Except that iPlay4e doesn't host any of the compendium data on it;'s site. Not to mention that it doesn't provide you access to the compendium data unless you have an active DDI subscription. There isn't going to be a case. The guys from MP are complying with the request. However (IANAL), if it did go to court, WotC would have a strong argument that the program was designed for the sole purpose of extracting data from the compendium and packaging it in a way so that the user no longer needed to use the DDI service to get at the Compendium, unless there are other websites that Masterplan could be pointed at to extract information from automatically. Have you ever looked at the output of a character builder file?? It is a plain-text file and has *no* power data in it. It references the compendium. [/QUOTE]
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