r/technology • u/chrisdh79 • Feb 03 '23

Netflix says strict new password sharing rules were posted in error Business

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/02/03/netflix-says-strict-new-password-sharing-rules-were-posted-in-error
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u/bytemage Feb 03 '23

Just like Hasbro's OGL?

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u/yesitdooms Feb 04 '23

Hasbro already fucked themselves over. The new ORC being created by Paizo will set the new standard.

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u/mia_elora Feb 04 '23

Yeah. I'm looking forward to seeing ORC in the wild.

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u/gerusz Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23

Also, they retreated by releasing their entire SRD into Creative Commons, and they oopsie'd a few words into it that were previously tied to "product identity" like "beholder" or "yuan-ti". (They don't have statblocks, but you can't copyright a statblock so...)

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u/yesitdooms Feb 04 '23

Too little too late. Paizo consists of the original framers of the D&D OGL. Hasbro has shown that they can and will go back on their word, whereas ORC will theoretically be so well designed that it can't be corrupted. If this remains true through realization, D&D will go the way of WoW and EverQuest.

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u/gerusz Feb 04 '23

But they literally can't go back on their word on this one.

When they announced this, they didn't announce their intention to release the SRD into Creative Commons. They straight-up released it into CC. That's it, once something is in CC it can't be locked down again.

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u/yesitdooms Feb 04 '23

They can build a new proprietary system from scratch, then discard the old OGL. People can still use it, but Wizards doesn't have to support it. Do not trust Hasbro to do anything to our benefit anymore.

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u/gerusz Feb 04 '23

Of course they can, I bet that right now they took a big step backwards and are reworking the 1D&D in order to break the vaunted "backwards compatibility" (but still only change it a little so they could update the 5e sourcebooks and adventures with minimal effort).

But... who gives a fuck?

Third party creators of 5e content are safe. At most they will have to update their books to include the CC-attribution from the SRD 5.1, and that's it. There will be "bootleg" versions of the PHB, DMG, MM, MotM, and the big two Everything-books also released under CC. (And possibly with much better balance than the original books.)

And with the SRD being CC, there's nothing stopping enterprising programmers from making their Beyond-clones.

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u/yesitdooms Feb 04 '23

The reality is that this doesn't matter to Joe Gamemaster and his Sunday group, none of it does. This was an attack on D&D's cottage industry and TRRPG influencers/content creators. What this means for Hasbro is less free press. Sort of like how Hasbro mangled Magic, yet it doesn't influence my weekly EDH group.

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u/gerusz Feb 04 '23

What it could mean to Joe Gamemaster (ah, as if scheduling was as easy as "Sundays"...) is that he can eventually ditch the Beyond subscription and still have the same convenience (once the aforementioned bootleg sourcebooks and Beyond-clones start getting released). Maybe even more.

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u/yesitdooms Feb 04 '23

Well it's like Gygax always said: the secret is that players don't need to buy anything, just pencil, paper, and their imagination. I have no idea why people need to subscribe to anything in order to play D&D.

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