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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kurtomatic" data-source="post: 5191822" data-attributes="member: 85486">There are sensible concerns here, but I think the biggest risk for anyone regarding legal action from WotC would be copyright or trademark infringement. They've clearly shown willingness to pursue those issues in court and with law enforcement. I have no idea what kind of risk Masterplan has in that regard.C&Ds are written by lawyers, not software developers, so I'm unsurprised the demands may have been made in a hamfisted way. Still, that is pretty disconcerting, and sometimes incompetence is as scary as malice; I agree that's something to watch.WotC making changes on their end to solve the problem is great in theory, but very non-trivial in practice. Currently, the Compendium API only identifies clients by individual subscriber accounts. They really don't want to be closing subscriber accounts based on client functionality. The API is currently setup in a very developer-friendly way. Messing with that risks making the API too hard to use. Its a tricky bit of risk management.If they really try to entirely shutdown a fan project for non-IP reasons, and only because it competes in the same space as a new first-party tools app, teh internets will burn! Another bit of tricky risk management. Bleh. The blowback for just shutting the API down wouldn't be nearly as bad.</blockquote>