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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 4149892" data-attributes="member: 18549">Also, having bought the books, you can make copies for your own personal use under the rubric of "fair use".  While nobody is currently able to pay for the books, and so the fair use argument wouldn't apply as a legal defence at this point, I think you'd have to do a lot of doubletalk in order to argue that someone who preordered the books and then downloaded a leaked PDF with no intention of cancelling the preorder is acting immorally.  The bottom line is the bottom line: if you buy the books, and don't distribute copies, you're not doing any harm to the publisher, even if you also download a pirated version and print up a hundred copies and wallpaper your den with them.Also, an "accidental" leak of part of the PHB would probably be an amazing marketing tool, getting thousands of people playing the game and champing at the bit for the full, hardback version.  That seems to be the plan anyway, considering the amount of useable information that has been provided, rounded up, and published as the "PHB-lite".  I have no doubt that they expected exactly that to happen.  Now they've got an existing 4E market to sell to before the product even comes back from the printers.Also: LOL at the suggestion that book piracy is morally equivalent to eating puppies.  Oh, you crazy kids these days.</blockquote>