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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silverblade The Ench" data-source="post: 4747981" data-attributes="member: 19083">This silliness is why I said elsewhere that it's not theft, it cannot be theft, it's unauthorized copying.It's a huge difference.if you can pay for a digital item, you should, if you can't...well tough, you are not stealing a real item.See, in the real world, it's finite. 3000 books are real objects, they take real wood and ink to make, this world we live on is finite. That is the basis of THEFT, taking real things. and with violence or menaces, it's robbery.But you could send 1 billion copies of them on pdf to everyone on Earth...which is impossible for real items. Thus, it's copying, not theft. If it's theft, then how come I can give a billion copies of them away?  Why shouldn't a perosn who cannot afford a copy, have one? Money is finite, copies are not.Stop confusing copying with theft, it's wrong and a dirty tactic by the "controllers" (and I don't mean 4th ed, lol)Our 19th century legal ideas and grubby corporations don't want to grow up and realize this is the 21st century.And note, I'm an artist, I know folks can copy my stuff, too bloody bad, big deal! compared to robbery at knifepoint, which I have experience of, it's nothing like the same!!of course people should be paid for their work..within limits. IP and Copyright, as they are currently, are major, dangerous nooses around our necks :/We desperately need free flowing information and entertainment.Why?Free laptops could stop more wars than bombs and be a lot cheaper.Ignorance is the root of much of the world's woes.etc etcSelling pdfs of the D&D books, including current ones, at $1 to 5 a pop, rather than the dumb prices they want for the recent items, would net a lot more money and good will.You'll always get folk copying, tough, too bad! Wanna tear yer eyes out so you don't see bad stuff, hm? Remove your pituitary gland so you don't get "naughty" thoughts? Stuff happens, long as it isn't really bad, tough, get over it.I'd rather have copying than a police state.Jeesh.See what happened ot the record industry when they started suing folk, why Metallica realized legal action made things worse for them...and here's a thought for ya all...imagine all the signals flying out of wi fis and other systems.So, we're broadcasting all our data into space.Do you really think our copyright means jack squat to the Aliens who may pick it up in centuries to come, eh? Or even out distance ancestors who may pick the signals up as they fly to the star safter we've probably reduced this Earth to a dead mess.Get real, we've broadcasted our data to space, our notions of controlling data are insane <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Adding a note on pdfs that they were made by a real person, maybe with pictures of the writers etc, would do a lot more good than this legal lunacy which has only caused more ill will.Why? make folk realize that *people* make content, and should be respected, and thus paid, when you are able to!People have no respect for faceless corporations.I love D&D, I buy D&D stuff, I'm happy to support the hobby I love os much. I respect the D&D designers and creators out there, I do not respect WOTC, and I do not believe in the damnable copyright mania.I have copies of thousands of books and works of art...in my head. Nobody has any right or claim on those. Same damn thing. Accept this and move on.</blockquote>

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