The answers on this poll were very strange, i would probably go for something like "download, read rules, learn system, NOT play."
I wouldn't have any qualms about downloading the books to start learning the rules and prepping my game. I probably wouldn't read it cover from cover though(scanned pdf's doesn't really make for good electronic reading imo), so i guess it would be a quick-skim sort of thing where you start checking out how the core gameplay will work, what the classes looks like etc etc
(if it was out today things might be different, that would be very early. then again the forums would be filled with information within hours and there would be no point in not getting it, so devil and the deep-blue-sea there).
But I would not try to play the game without the books in my hands, its just too much back and forth between the pc and the game-table. Neither would i print it out, it would be a waste of paper and just a big mess. i might be impatient, but there are always something to kill the time with.
Pen and paper roleplaying games isn't the sort of business that i expect have a big problem with piracy. I would have to say you would be at an epic moral low if you start printing out these books instead of buying them
(i would have guessed the printing alone would cost just as much as the original books 
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Anyway, first post here wohoo. I know its a bad first impression when i waste it on halfway defending piracy... But i find this a pretty clear-cut case of non-problematic 'spoilerhunting'/knowledge-expanding, which i don't think would hurt their economy. PR and marketing-wise though, it might be a disturbing thing, so nothing's black and white...
