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#1 Beldak_Serpenthelm Jan 18, 2015 13:46:39	If WotC were still supporting 3.5, then I could understand their position as being "1) people don't pay us but still play the game vs. 2) people don't pay us and don't play the game vs 3) people pay us and then play the game." In that case, they could reasonably use lawsuits to prevent #1 and gamers would still have a legitimate choice between #2 and #3.   WotC is not supporting 3.5 anymore, so their position is "1) people don't pay us but still play the game vs. 2) people don't pay us and don't play the game."   This is not about stopping gamers for the sake of making money. This is not about stopping gamers for the sake of protecting property. This is not about stopping gamers for the sake of [insert anything reasonable].   This is about stopping gamers for the sake of stopping gamers.   Am I wrong?
#2 lestroissauvages Jan 18, 2015 18:31:08	it might also be a trademark thing, which is not entirely like copyright. if you don't defend your trademark, you can lose it, then you're in a world of financial hurt b/c you've lost everything. it wouldn't even be worth enforcing your copyrights as anyone could sell anything they wanted as 'dnd'. so, it sucks, but it may have been 'business reasonable,' which may be about as reasonable as 'business casual' is casual.
#3 AaronOfBarbaria Jan 22, 2015 18:08:34	Yes, beldak, you are wrong - WotC was required by law to go after dndtools.eu because that site was distributing trademarked materials, and if WotC doesn't pursue such violations on their trademarks they lose legal claim to them.   WotC isn't trying to stop gamers for the sake of stopping gamers - they are just keeping their right to their trademarks and some gamers happened to not be mindful that that has to happen (i.e getting shut down is the websites fault for not only hosting open material - which the tiniest bit of research would have showed them the consequences of since it isn't reasonable to expect WotC to just release whatever trademark someone decides they want to use without permission).
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