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Message: <blockquote data-quote="3 Man" data-source="post: 4211255" data-attributes="member: 63975">I have often felt as you do when reading the forums and am glad that you have put voice to this accurate albeit unpopular observation.  The bottom line is industry of any type needs to be legal, ethical and profitable to exist.  This idea that intellectual property should be made available as cheaply as possible is both naive and short sighted.  While a few people may benefit from seeing free ideas many more will benefit if those same ideas are leveraged to generate revenue that in turn becomes more ideas that reach higher and higher pinacles of imagination, presentation and distribution.I just got back from seeing Iron Man.  I am sure some comic book fans are complaining that Marvel is selling their soul to the devil and cheapening their product and whatever.  Claiming that if people want to know Iron Man they can pick up a book and read it.  I disagree.  The movie has earned $100MM and reached an audience exponetialy larger than the books ever have.  And where does that money go?  Well some of it does go to the proverbial money grubbing 'man'.  But some of it goes to the creative artists and visionaries and the industry that they love breathing new life, revenues and fans to a niche market that without the movie vehicle would have gone without.So please, by all means, make money Wotc!  Sell me books and services that I want to voluntary open up my wallet and participate in buying.  And use that money to reinvest in the industry that I love that my kids and generations of kids behind them can be where we've been.  That they may one day know the thrill of standing in the gap between good and evil, protecting the down trodden from those who would harm them.   That they too can stand knee deep in their allies and enemies blood and vicera on their own last 2 hit points staring down the red dragon; their tiefling paladin tosses down his shield and with his last breathe raises his sword and with a mighty two-handed cleave rolls a natural 20 and vanquishes the red dragon.And he looks into the camera and declares, "I am Iron Man!"</blockquote>

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