🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <CnDuM4.JIq@reptiles.org>, Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org> wrote:
>In article <2n643s$5vp@panix.com>, Clay Shirky <clays@panix.com> wrote:
>>In <CnBC3I.863@reptiles.org> jim@reptiles.org (Jim Mercer) writes:
>>>if the police decided to seized the operator's equipment, they are out of
>>>business.  they might get their equipment back, but not likely in the
>>>same shape it was in before. (remember Steve Jackson Games?)
>>
>>>the operators were not bowing to goverment pressure, but cowering under the
>>>fear of police action.
>>
>>Jim, where were you? We *won* the Steve Jackson's games thing.
>
>_you_ may have won, but i don't think that Steve Jackson Games won.
>
>from what i understand, they got a piddly little settlement, and i don't think
>they got all of their equipment back.
>
>their business was interrupted for an extended period, causing them to
>nearly go out of business.
>
>maybe it is a good thing for "the people" that Steve Jackson Games won.
>
>i don't think the whole episode was a good thing for Steve Jackson Games
>itself.

	If you read the case papers, I believe you will note that one of
the reasons that the judge gave such a small award was because he felt
that the harm done was offset by the publicity that they recieved. IMHO,
this sux. Still, they did advertise GURPS Cyberpunk as "The book the
Secret Service tried to supress" I've heard.

AB^2
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