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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 1545293" data-attributes="member: 6390">Gee, all of a sudden I invade privacy and federal computer laws by inserting a tracking method for a product?Hmmmm, let's see what else does this...WINDOWS!Norton Antivirus!Hundreds of software titles use this system. In order to register/update, etc, it pings a server.Now, how did I invade thier privacy? Are IP number private, or are they public information that the backbone of using your computer on the internet is based off of?No copies of thier hard-drives. No identification of names. No information what so ever, at all.Just }ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxxThat's it. Ping.Your computer does that on a regular basis. This site leaves more data and examines more data on your system than my little tracker did.Honestly, to me, that little statement reminds me of a child caught with his hand in the cookie jar who yells: "FINE! I'LL NEVER EAT COOKIES ANYWAY!" at his catcher.Thanks for the accusation that I invaded people's privacy and broke federal computing laws. Thanks for the libel. I appreciate your devotion to the facts, as well as the intent and scope of what I did.Remind me, if I ever regain the ability to really care about things, to reread the section on how I'm a criminal.And additionally, if you read it again, this is what was done...I took the online "FREE SAMPLE", inflated the PDF and zip size, added my code to **PING** an IP address (the massive invasion of privacy I did, a PING! Oh my god, I know everything about them, and can now watch them in the shower! They've been violated by a PING! I could get more data with a whois on mIRC!) edited the zipfile comments and file comments to match the illegal copies on KaZaA, Bearshare, Gnutella, eMule and others, and placed it in a folder.The "Free Sample"...Not my complete work.But, apparently my data was skewed. One person downloaded it and just opened it a lot. And continued to open it, a lot, just because he likes to see: "BUY THE REAL BOOK, THIEF!" in big red letters at the top of the pages of the PDF....I like how an attempt was made, both to discredit what I did, and to claim that I am a worse criminal than those who download the RPG material...Here's some data to consider...Many companies are moving to no longer producing computer games. Why? Because you can download ISO CD files within days of the product hitting the shelf to copy the CD, complete with instruction for the stupid.RPG PDF's are moving to the "Why bother? They'll just steal it." train of thought.Quality software for RPG's is not being produced for pay, due to the massive amount of piracy.Is this having an affect on the industry? I'd say yes.Is it wrong to download PDF's that sell for even $0.01 for free? Yes. Unless you live in some bizarro universe, it's wrong, and most of all, YOU KNOW IT!All of this legalese is just self-aggrandizing excuses for something you KNOW is wrong.Oh, and for those of you who were wondering, we will be inserting microchips within all hard-copy books that allow me to track you on my global sat-system and watch your sister take a shower.Sheeesh.</blockquote>

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