Uh, what was this?
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There is a lengthy thread concerning this in the WotC forums.
The website included the text of powers for the power cards it created. That is an overt violation of copyright, and the owner of the site acknowledges that content. It should also be noted that it was the site owner's web provider that deleted the entire site before the site owner could try and remove the offending material to make it legal.
This is nothing about WotC attacking the people who play their game, and everything about WotC protecting their copyrights and their products (the upcoming power cards and their DDI character generator).
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There is a lengthy thread concerning this in the WotC forums.Can you post a link to this "lengthy thread"?
Try here. Personally, not only do I respect WotC's decision here, but I would expect Paizo to protect their materials in the exact same manner if such an intrusion ever pops up.
I don't know if anyone has seen this:
http://www.emass-web.com/
I can not believe wizards did this...
Way to pick on the community that they claim to support...
:^(
Ema's website was violating copyright law pretty flagrantly, and WotC was more than within their rights to request the violating material be removed. They did so, and instead of simply remove the material in question, Ema's ISP reportedly took the entire site down. Ema has since explained that he has no ill will towards Wizards since he knows he was in the wrong, and doesn't plan on bringing the website back up.
But some people in the gaming community love their drama, and love to speculate wildly (and draw totally incorrect conclusions) about situations they have little to no understanding of.