RE: BIF's - WAS: RPG Free question]

[Ron Harvey <ron.harvey2@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott Johnson said:

WOW, COMMON Europe has the presentations available to anybody!

Last time I tried to access the recent presentations for COMMON (USA), you had
to sign in AND you had to have gone to that conference. I assumed being a
COMMON member with paid up dues, I could access the presentations after the
conference. Silly me. I sent them an email about not having access and they
pretty much said that it just the way it is.

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Scott, I'm actually very surprised Common Europe allows absolutely anyone to 
download presentations. 

A lot of this is speaker related. They put a huge amount of time and effort 
into the presentations they "give" away at Common and get paid to do elsewhere.

If you allow all your handouts to be downloaded en-mass by anyone, you might 
not be doing any paid gigs before long.

That's some, if not most, of Common USA's reasoning.

Ron