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$125,000 in fines for D&D pirates? Help me do the math...
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<blockquote data-quote="Primal" data-source="post: 4968980" data-attributes="member: 30678"><p>I don't know how US copyright laws work, but it would perfectly legal around here to share a copy (whether a digital copy on a DVD/USB/CD-ROM/Etcetera, or a photocopied book) with your family and friends (this is explicitly defined in my country's law; a gaming session among a circle of friends at someone's house counts "private use"). However, you cannot pass on the copy; everyone may freely use it in private (for example, at your house) but cannot make a copy of it (but see below).</p><p></p><p>If you absolutely want a digital copy of a book without paying for it and you don't own a scanner, there's a legal way to get it. If your local library has a scanner, you could legally scan every RPG book in their collection and save up to 3 copies of every book as PDFs (on a USB/DVD/Etcetera). As I said above, you could let your friends freely use these copies; for example, you could save a copy on three different USBs and pass them around for use during a gaming session. It would also be possible that your whole gaming group participated in scanning the copy at the library, and made their own copies on their own USBs (the library cannot store the file on any hard drive, however). </p><p></p><p>As I said, I don't know how this works in the US, but I suspect this process would be legal over there, too. However, as I also said above, under NO circumstances could you distrubute any of these copies in any way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Primal, post: 4968980, member: 30678"] I don't know how US copyright laws work, but it would perfectly legal around here to share a copy (whether a digital copy on a DVD/USB/CD-ROM/Etcetera, or a photocopied book) with your family and friends (this is explicitly defined in my country's law; a gaming session among a circle of friends at someone's house counts "private use"). However, you cannot pass on the copy; everyone may freely use it in private (for example, at your house) but cannot make a copy of it (but see below). If you absolutely want a digital copy of a book without paying for it and you don't own a scanner, there's a legal way to get it. If your local library has a scanner, you could legally scan every RPG book in their collection and save up to 3 copies of every book as PDFs (on a USB/DVD/Etcetera). As I said above, you could let your friends freely use these copies; for example, you could save a copy on three different USBs and pass them around for use during a gaming session. It would also be possible that your whole gaming group participated in scanning the copy at the library, and made their own copies on their own USBs (the library cannot store the file on any hard drive, however). As I said, I don't know how this works in the US, but I suspect this process would be legal over there, too. However, as I also said above, under NO circumstances could you distrubute any of these copies in any way. [/QUOTE]
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