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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kurtomatic" data-source="post: 5188477" data-attributes="member: 85486">Seriously? I'm not sure any effort at offering clarity and accuracy is worthwhile or appreciated at this point, so I'll try to keep this short.Masterplan and iPlay4e are neither books or fansites (strictly speaking), and thus the GSL and fansite policies are irrelevant in every way, shape, and form. Neither of these applications engage or use any of the license materials from those two agreements, so those agreements do not apply. The only public WotC agreement relevant to these apps are the DDI terms of use.When you create a character in the DDI Character Builder application, you can save this character in a .dnd4e format file. This file does not contain any proprietary data, and you are free to distribute these files and the data contained therein any way you'd like. This is by design. iPlay4e allows you to upload this file to the google cloud, and subsequently download this very same file to another location. iPlay4e also allows you to interact with that file data through its web application interface. WotC does not care about LittleBobby.dnd4e, or what happens to the data it contains.Everytime you interact with proprietary DDI data through a third party application (which WotC clearly does care about), the app has a couple of ways of facilitating this. The app can require you to log into DDI with your account credentials every single time you consume that data, or it can hit DDI once, copy that proprietary data locally in some persistent form, and then simply use that local copy for your future consumption needs. The advantages of the second approach potentially include improved performance and features. One of these methods explicitly follows the DDI terms of use, and the other is possibly up for debate. Guess which one each app in question uses.Asserting that WotC is arbitrarily interfering with one fan application over another because they 'do the same thing' is a complete misrepresentation of the facts based on how I understand these apps to work.</blockquote>

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