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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mynex" data-source="post: 2535624" data-attributes="member: 2136">The problem here is not that you and someone else own the same book, the problem is in the distribution of the files, that is the illegal aspect of this.Someone once made a really good example to me (can't rem who or I'd attribute their name to it)... Just because you own the book, "I, Robot", doesn't mean that you are entitled to a free copy of the movie, or a free copy of the 'audio book'.  Those are 3 seperate media.  Yes, it's all the same _content_ but the format is different.You're not paying for the book, the movie, and the audio book, you're paying for the time/effort/work involved to create those different formats of the same content.So while it IS all the same content, it is NOT the same 'product' and you are NOT entitled to have all 3 versions just because you bought 1 version.And 'password protecting' the zips is a joke... I'm sorry, I could download every zip, make a list of what words I needed and go into FLGS and simply look up the info I needed.  Get real here, that is not 'protection', it's a lazy attempt of it so people can say "well we were protecting the info for people who own the product" so they can make themselves feel like they're not stealing.By sharing the scripts with everyone, it's stealing, pure and simple, from WotC who owns the content.  And in the end, if WotC decides they've had enough, they can make life very unpleasant for any person/program that they feel is violating their ideas, trademarks, and copyrights, etc... the content.Doesn't matter whether you or anyone else agree's, doesn't matter what arguments you or anyone else may have, in the end, the decision about what violates things with WotC's, is WotC's, period.  And unless you're willing to shell out the $$ to fight WotC in court, your opinion doesn't matter.Sorry to be so blunt about it, but people need to understand the differences here, and so many people don't.As for CMP's data being too expensive... I won't bother to get into it over the pricing other than to say this; "You have 3 choices in the end; 1. Buy the data, 2. Don't buy the data, 3. Enter the information yourself". If it's too expensive for you, don't buy it.</blockquote>

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