as a bystander reading everything, i'll throw my two credits in as well.
1. Let the Admins review, vote and make a ruling on if it is or is not powergaming. Make clear, structured arguments for or against. that's debate 101.
2. look at it this way: "if you send confidential information to someone and they turn around to sell it (or onsend in general) to a competitor, this would be a way to either prevent that or provide a way of proving who passed on the info, if it was found out, to then levy consequences against the leaker."
Also this:
(05-16-2015, 11:42 AM)jammi Wrote: Copy protection prevents people from passing on verifiable and authenticated data. All the metadata and other inRP required information would be missing.
If you took a picture with a camera it certainly wouldn't be admissible as official evidence because DHC would claim it's fabricated and the submitter would have no way to prove otherwise, I guess.
I get why they want to do this, I suppose. Could prevent a certain amount of siliness, especially in regards to corporate warfare and bounties.