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<blockquote data-quote="Enerla" data-source="post: 4753473" data-attributes="member: 83246"><p>Let me ask it differently.</p><p></p><p>If you would live a country where you pay a lot of money for a permission to make copies of copyrighted materials, and even with high profile filesharing sites the court says: copying and sharing with people is legal copying and not illegal. They say: You paid for a permission to do so, so it is allowed.</p><p></p><p>You know that they authorize such copying with an agency that sends money to publisher and ofreign agencies (and it is same as the extra fees from libraries etc) and authorizing such not for profit copying should b authorized this way in your country.</p><p> </p><p>Is that enough to justify copying books to the friends?</p><p></p><p>Legally it can be.</p><p> </p><p>But if we see: it is our hobby and we want to support it and we should be careful about what can threaten the future of our hobby and what can help? Suddenly the question is about: Do you expect more or less sales if you "pirate" the books? </p><p> </p><p>But lets see from a different point: There are guys (like one of the defendants) who point to the above, and say what they did was legal and reasonable. The question is: Side with him? Side with WOTC? Side with anyone else?</p><p></p><p>If you see his piracy was both legal and benefical to the hobby we share, then you can side with him. If he is right and what he done is legal, but you find it harmful for your hobby, it is reasonable to dislike him anyway. </p><p> </p><p>But lets add another thing to the picture. Would you seek for a solution where you pay fees to authorize copying? IF you find it better for all, you can decide you want it in USA and contact your favorite party to talk about this. If you find it bad: that is a different scenario <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Enerla, post: 4753473, member: 83246"] Let me ask it differently. If you would live a country where you pay a lot of money for a permission to make copies of copyrighted materials, and even with high profile filesharing sites the court says: copying and sharing with people is legal copying and not illegal. They say: You paid for a permission to do so, so it is allowed. You know that they authorize such copying with an agency that sends money to publisher and ofreign agencies (and it is same as the extra fees from libraries etc) and authorizing such not for profit copying should b authorized this way in your country. Is that enough to justify copying books to the friends? Legally it can be. But if we see: it is our hobby and we want to support it and we should be careful about what can threaten the future of our hobby and what can help? Suddenly the question is about: Do you expect more or less sales if you "pirate" the books? But lets see from a different point: There are guys (like one of the defendants) who point to the above, and say what they did was legal and reasonable. The question is: Side with him? Side with WOTC? Side with anyone else? If you see his piracy was both legal and benefical to the hobby we share, then you can side with him. If he is right and what he done is legal, but you find it harmful for your hobby, it is reasonable to dislike him anyway. But lets add another thing to the picture. Would you seek for a solution where you pay fees to authorize copying? IF you find it better for all, you can decide you want it in USA and contact your favorite party to talk about this. If you find it bad: that is a different scenario :) [/QUOTE]
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