Why can't we make isotropic a private thing you sign up for then, only if you have the game? I don't think there's a product code or anyway we can prove we own the game, but I don't feel that's my fault. If I go to isotropic and type in a kingdom using just Seaside, Hinterlands, and Base I'm not using anything I haven't paid for, but there's this guilty until proven innocent sort of thing going on where the whole thing is getting shut down (and any fanmade implementations like it in any form) because you -might- not have a paper copy of the game, so you need to pay again to make sure.
Like I am totally an intellectual property friendly kinda guy, but I'm also a right-of-first sale kind of guy, and this violates right-of-first sale.
And yeah, analogies tend to have problems, but, let's just abandon analogies altogether, because as I was taught in my rhetoric class, analogies are useful for teaching a concept to someone who is not at all skeptical but utterly useless in disagreements.