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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 5220984" data-attributes="member: 7808">I leave the question of legality up to the courts and license terms.A friend likes the music you are playing in your car.  Then you:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Let him borrow the CD. - Moral</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Burn him a copy of the CD. - Marginally moral</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Give him the CD. - Moral</li> </ul>You read Robert Frost's "Fire and Ice", and enjoy it.  Then you:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Assuming this is under public domain, all are moral.</li> </ul>You read "The Tales of Beedle the Bard", and enjoy it.  Then you:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Enjoying this book is marginally moral to begin with.  All options of sharing, less so</li> </ul>You subscribe to a website that allows you to watch videos and gives access to other "Premium Content."  Then you:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Invite friends over and watch the videos together. - If you've invited friends over for this type of activity, you're either much closer/experimental with most of your friends than I am, or a skeevy creep.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Make DVDs that include the videos and give them to your friends. - If you're friends are under 18, this is highly illegal and immoral.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Give out your username and password so that your friends can access the site for free. - Stupid.  Many sites have a feature that cancels your account if you log in from multiple IPs at the same time to block this.  I'm not going to risk my account for my friends.</li> </ul>You subscribe to the DDI.  Then you:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Download the CB onto your friends' laptops so that they can use it. - Moral.  A big part of the DDI/CB is getting access to updates.  Doing a one-time share for a game isn't a big deal.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Download the CB onto one friend's laptop so that they can use it.  You later find out that he hacked your account and has accessed other content through your account. - Immoral for the friend.  If you're going to hack an account, don't hack mine <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=":)" /></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Give out your username and password to the other 7 Players in your group so that they can access your DDI account. - Immoral</li> </ul>You get a new pdf of a splatbook, and want to use a feat for a PC.  Then you:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">tl;dr</li> </ul>You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you . . . You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.  <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Why is that Leon? - Leon has no roots.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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