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There’s nothing wrong in that, is there?
Not, nope at all.

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No one’s still answered the fundamental moral questions.
They have been addressed, but many questions whether or not you're even asking the right question.

You're right that items like the fan Drift are stepping all over Hasbro's IP toes. Items like City Commander make a deliberate effort to _not_ do that. They're selling an item designed to work with Hasbro's items, not intended to compete with Hasbro. In terms of right and wrong, they're making an effort to _not_ steal from Hasbro. The KOers are not making that same effort. Which is the answer many people have provided to your questions.

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It annoys me that it can even asserted that I’ve ignored others viewpoints when I have myself been ignored.
On the contrary, your viewpoint has been considered, but I still don't believe that your assertion that Hasbro's rights are being violated in the same way by both fan projects and flagrant KOers. Fan items such as Drift are stealing Hasbro's IP and the IP of the company that created Drift in their publication (I don't know who that is, sorry), and your point is perfectly valid there.

Can you provide us with specific proof that items such as the Ratchet/Ironhide heads, City Commander and the Cliffjumper set _are_ too close to Hasbro's IP as to violate Hasbro's rights? Those disagreeing with you are mainly questioning your claim that this IP is being used in an unauthorised manner. You made that claim, we're calling you on it -as I did with my Calidad refence.

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I certainly don’t for a moment have a single misgiving about people ignoring me but it I do have a misgiving about people telling me I’ve ignored others.
That was more directed at some of the comments such as "this is an excuse", above. Which wasn't yours. Sorry I should have been more specific.

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It only bothers me that someone can sit there and suggest that for a moment I’ve ignored all other viewpoints, Dirge.
Again, this mainly relates to comments from jaydisc. My apologies - I'm trying to not make it personal, but I was too sweeping.

Having said that, noone has responded to my point about the fan items which specifically avoid IP, as well as my reference to the printer cartridge companies, whose reverse engineering has been proven to be legally valid (and which offers a strong parallel).