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Originally Posted by Minuteman37
Wait were they trying to sell it or something?
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Making (or failing to make) money has very little to do with a lot of things.
They fraudulantly claimed it was a SJG product.
They
also copied SJG trade dress, further reinforcing that this was a real SJG product, when it wasn't.
They fraudulantly claimed it was written by Bill Stoddard and Ken Height.
They fraudulantly claimed it was a licensed Paramount product.
They copied vast quantities of GURPS products, well beyond any sort of Fair Use defense and in direct violation of the SJG fan publication guidelines.
Even if you don't care about the copy-pasting of other peoples work and claiming you wrote it, the part where they violated Paramount's license and then said "THEY did it!" is pretty damned horrid.
EVEN ASIDE from that, it wasn't up to SJG house standards, but they led people to believe it was a SJG product. Cheap knock-offs are tacky.