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<blockquote data-quote="sckeener" data-source="post: 2864620" data-attributes="member: 8801"><p>Yes, they did. You have to have a <strong>receipt</strong>. The law (in the US) for CDs and DVDs is the same. You have to have a receipt. Even if you have the original CD, DVD, VHS, Software or book (heck anything) that is not proof of purchase. A CD, DVD, VHS, Software or book could be stolen or a very good fake. Only a receipt is proof of purchase. The example one lawyer gave me was for a windows XP cd. You could have the CD, the license #, have it registered with Microsoft and it would still be illegal if you do not have a receipt (he was a software ip attorney w/20 years in the field.) He also did a cavet that the likely hood of Mircosoft winning such a case in court though would be small. He was just saying the only way to completely stop the inquiry is to have the receipt. Having the original book means nothing. Having a <u>receipt</u> is the only way. I'd prefer to stay out of court, so completely stopping the inquiry is what I want. </p><p></p><p>I'm not selling books that I scan. Those books are destroyed in the process. I'm selling the books that I buy as PDFs from sites such as </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>They have purchase histories. They have my receipts. (Admittedly I'm not trusting them on this - Enworld DB crash <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ) It would be bad for their business if their customers were afraid to buy their products because they might someday need to prove where they got it from and couldn't.</p><p></p><p>I decided to buy my 1st/2nd edition (WoD, ars magica, etc.) books in PDF because it was taking too long to OCR and was frightening shredding books for scanning. I haven’t figured out how to get the pages away from the binding easily. Since I love my books, it really hurts to destroy them. My time is worth more.</p><p></p><p>However I’ve seen the benefits of PDFs, so I am going to continue.</p><p></p><p>Now for my 3rd/3.5 books or any other book I can not buy in PDF, I’m going to have to either buy another copy so I can get a receipt or not scan it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sckeener, post: 2864620, member: 8801"] Yes, they did. You have to have a [B]receipt[/B]. The law (in the US) for CDs and DVDs is the same. You have to have a receipt. Even if you have the original CD, DVD, VHS, Software or book (heck anything) that is not proof of purchase. A CD, DVD, VHS, Software or book could be stolen or a very good fake. Only a receipt is proof of purchase. The example one lawyer gave me was for a windows XP cd. You could have the CD, the license #, have it registered with Microsoft and it would still be illegal if you do not have a receipt (he was a software ip attorney w/20 years in the field.) He also did a cavet that the likely hood of Mircosoft winning such a case in court though would be small. He was just saying the only way to completely stop the inquiry is to have the receipt. Having the original book means nothing. Having a [U]receipt[/U] is the only way. I'd prefer to stay out of court, so completely stopping the inquiry is what I want. I'm not selling books that I scan. Those books are destroyed in the process. I'm selling the books that I buy as PDFs from sites such as They have purchase histories. They have my receipts. (Admittedly I'm not trusting them on this - Enworld DB crash ;) ) It would be bad for their business if their customers were afraid to buy their products because they might someday need to prove where they got it from and couldn't. I decided to buy my 1st/2nd edition (WoD, ars magica, etc.) books in PDF because it was taking too long to OCR and was frightening shredding books for scanning. I haven’t figured out how to get the pages away from the binding easily. Since I love my books, it really hurts to destroy them. My time is worth more. However I’ve seen the benefits of PDFs, so I am going to continue. Now for my 3rd/3.5 books or any other book I can not buy in PDF, I’m going to have to either buy another copy so I can get a receipt or not scan it. [/QUOTE]
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