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<blockquote data-quote="King_Stannis" data-source="post: 108210" data-attributes="member: 324">this is tangentally related.....some years ago i had a &quot;little black box&quot;...to steal cable tv. now, i am under no delusion that i was stealing - it was. but i justified it as so: the local cable company did give crappy service. we had cable outages that sometimes lasted up to a day, with no corresponding credit. not to mention the fact that the product was only sporadically good. still, i paid the $30 a month for basic service, and used the black box to get the pay tv channels. i always said that if my box got scrambled the cable company would lose out in the end.....eventually, it did get scrambled. i promptly cancelled my cable and ordered direct tv. end result - direct tv gets my $30 a month - cable company now get $0. i've had direct tv for over 5 years now, which means that the cable company has lost out on $1,800 by scrambling my box. so did the cable company really win in the end? i know they must protect their signal, but i'm just telling you the end result here.and no. i do not in any way steal direct tv's signal - i'm perfectly happy with them and their excellent customer service.so i kind of support the fileshare as preview point of view. as teflon billy mentioned earlier, alot of companies put out crap with tons of errors in it and then charge an arm and a leg. (then you have ryan dancey saying that rpg products as a whole are UNDERPRICED(?))...which all leads to lots of people who now like to preview stuff first before buying. i can see both sides, but if anything this might have the effect of forcing companies to put out better product. if word gets out that a product is a dog before lots of people make the mistake of buying it, those companies producing it may be forced to do better next time.just some random thoughts.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="King_Stannis, post: 108210, member: 324"] this is tangentally related..... some years ago i had a "little black box"...to steal cable tv. now, i am under no delusion that i was stealing - it was. but i justified it as so: the local cable company did give crappy service. we had cable outages that sometimes lasted up to a day, with no corresponding credit. not to mention the fact that the product was only sporadically good. still, i paid the $30 a month for basic service, and used the black box to get the pay tv channels. i always said that if my box got scrambled the cable company would lose out in the end..... eventually, it did get scrambled. i promptly cancelled my cable and ordered direct tv. end result - direct tv gets my $30 a month - cable company now get $0. i've had direct tv for over 5 years now, which means that the cable company has lost out on $1,800 by scrambling my box. so did the cable company really win in the end? i know they must protect their signal, but i'm just telling you the end result here. and no. i do not in any way steal direct tv's signal - i'm perfectly happy with them and their excellent customer service. so i kind of support the fileshare as preview point of view. as teflon billy mentioned earlier, alot of companies put out crap with tons of errors in it and then charge an arm and a leg. (then you have ryan dancey saying that rpg products as a whole are UNDERPRICED(?))...which all leads to lots of people who now like to preview stuff first before buying. i can see both sides, but if anything this might have the effect of forcing companies to put out better product. if word gets out that a product is a dog before lots of people make the mistake of buying it, those companies producing it may be forced to do better next time. just some random thoughts. [/QUOTE]

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