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Originally Posted by kingcharlesxii
And the same goes for me, I wouldn't dream about releasing the password unless I got your approval too, the league was always your baby. I was just a caretaker for awhile. Now it might take me awhile to remember what the password WAS for a league that long ago but I kept all the files archived "just in case".
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I occasionally wonder what would've happened to some of those stud prospects I had coming up through the Okapi system when we shut down. But not enough to want to try getting the password cracked.
In Time Warp, we went through a situation where we lost our founder and commissioner to real-life concerns. We were at the point where enough of us didn't want to let the league die that we were about to ask to get the league password cracked, but we ended up not having to do so.
I don't think it's always clear-cut where the intellectual property lies. For example, in Time Warp, Matt from TN did an enormous amount of work on the league: wrote a long-running dynasty thread before it ever became an online league, then ran it for many seasons before life caught up to him. But on the other hand, I wrote a long-running dynasty thread on my team, and a number of other people made enormous contributions in writing and gathering of history. We all had some degree of ownership in "the league", not just in our teams. Had Matt said "No way, I'm closing up shop and that's final", I don't think any of us would've argued. But when the league just sort of... went on hiatus, that was different.