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<blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 1535395" data-attributes="member: 1328">Actually, no. There's no perfectly legal way to trade the crunchy bits of Exalted, or GURPS, or other non-OGC games.You are forgetting a category that was recently added thanks to the considerable brain-storming efforts of antipirates.T% have bought the real product, but can't use it (unreadable thanks to antipiracy measures).It's something that we're seeing now in the music industry, but that was seen before in the videogame industry. Back in the time of floppies, games usually had boring antipiracy protections that required you to flip through the game's manual before (or while) playing. I remembered hunting for cracked versions of games I owned because I wanted to skip that part. Now, the current trend is to have the game requires the presence of the CD in the drive. And you can find a lot of no-CD patchs. I use them, too -- my DVD drive is fast, but its access time is crappy, and having to wait 3-4 second for the disk to spin fast enough before it can be read is an unwelcome addition to long loading times.Fortunately, the RPG industry seems unaffected by this. It can be either because they're clever enough to know that antipiracy protections only harm legit buyers and merely amuse pirates; or it can be because they haven't devised yet ways to prevent the scanning of books (although, I've heard people saying that the brown lines in the D&amp;D core books were supposed to hamper OCR) or the sharing of PDFs. Let's hope they won't.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gez, post: 1535395, member: 1328"] Actually, no. There's no perfectly legal way to trade the crunchy bits of Exalted, or GURPS, or other non-OGC games. You are forgetting a category that was recently added thanks to the considerable brain-storming efforts of antipirates. T% have bought the real product, but can't use it (unreadable thanks to antipiracy measures). It's something that we're seeing now in the music industry, but that was seen before in the videogame industry. Back in the time of floppies, games usually had boring antipiracy protections that required you to flip through the game's manual before (or while) playing. I remembered hunting for cracked versions of games I owned because I wanted to skip that part. Now, the current trend is to have the game requires the presence of the CD in the drive. And you can find a lot of no-CD patchs. I use them, too -- my DVD drive is fast, but its access time is crappy, and having to wait 3-4 second for the disk to spin fast enough before it can be read is an unwelcome addition to long loading times. Fortunately, the RPG industry seems unaffected by this. It can be either because they're clever enough to know that antipiracy protections only harm legit buyers and merely amuse pirates; or it can be because they haven't devised yet ways to prevent the scanning of books (although, I've heard people saying that the brown lines in the D&D core books were supposed to hamper OCR) or the sharing of PDFs. Let's hope they won't. [/QUOTE]

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