What's your take?: Downloading illegal copies of sourcebooks

[sunbeam60]

Hi all

Yeah, so like everybody else I am a Kazaa user. I use it to .... download .... young .... aspiring artists who .... give away their work for free ... yeah, that's right.

I don't know why this never crossed my mind before, but I was looking for d20 adventures (yeah, the free kind actually) and inputting d20 just gave me a SLEW of d20 material, all scanned, all PDF, ready to print, full color.

Whoa!

I know a lot of people justify downloading copyrighted music off Kazaa by saying that they are checking it out and if they like the CD, they go buy it.

I can actually, sort of, see the sense in that argument, but I was surprised to find myself thinking: "Wait a minute, the authors worked really hard for this, I should go check out the book in the bookstore if I consider picking it up".

What's your take on this issue? Do you think sourcebooks follow the same argument as music: That we are merely checking it out for a purchase?

regards
Toft

 

[Janos Audron]

Deja vu, much?

 

[nHammer]

Bets on how long this thread will last?

 

[sunbeam60]

Having just returned to the boards a week or so ago, I might be stepping in someone's footsteps. Did a thread like this get closed down? Or was it particularly lively?

Regards
Toft

 

[DDK]

Heh, and to think, I had absolutely nothing to do with the posting of this thread!

I bet... hmm... another five posts... actually, make that three, Mark's online...

 

[nHammer]

Having just returned to the boards a week or so ago, I might be stepping in someone's footsteps. Did a thread like this get closed down? Or was it particularly lively?

Regards
Toft

This subject has been talked about. But that isn't the problem (well, not a major one). The problem is that I don't believe the poll is allowed.

 

[sunbeam60]

This subject has been talked about. But that isn't the problem (well, not a major one). The problem is that I don't believe the poll is allowed.

[treading carefully]
Because it involves the discussion of potentially illegal stuff? Ok, well, I guess it's going to get shut down then. Simply curious, that's all....
[/treading carefully]

regards
Toft

 

[Crothian]

Also, because we havea lot of small time publishers and pirating their material probably really hurts them. I imagine they are not happy with the situtation.

 

[Janos Audron]

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?threadid=35004

(the situation between me & CS has been resolved)

 

[Sagan Darkside]

Since the industry is too small to be able to handle the problem- the consumer's should handle it.

Ostracize those people who do it. Don't let them play at the table- drop them on the ignore list on message boards.

It won't solve the problem, but it will make it clear whose side the consumers are on to everyone involved.

SD