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<blockquote data-quote="N0Man" data-source="post: 4914794" data-attributes="member: 64066">Instead of posting more inflammatory remarks, why don't you answer the question I posed.If I had personally scanned my hardcopies and OCR'd them, put them on my laptop or thumb-drive for strictly my own personal use, would you still say that I was stealing?And for the record, I was not &quot;crowing&quot; about it or any other such nonsense.&nbsp; In fact, I was reluctant to even admit it, but only did so for the sake of discussion.&nbsp; My whole reason for it was to make the valid and true point that you can't assume that all downloads are a sales loss.&nbsp; It's simply not true.I stole nothing.&nbsp; I deprived WotC of nothing.&nbsp; I bought the materials, I am not a thief.&nbsp; Technically you could say I committed piracy, and even that was only to obtain digital versions for my own personal use that I could have created myself under Fair Use.I'm not even going to say that what I did was right, or legal.&nbsp; At the very best, it would be a gray area of rationalizing, and I realize that.&nbsp; However, what I will argue is that I created absolutely no loss to WotC, and that it is very likely that many other exceptions exist, and *again*, downloads does not equal sales loss.&nbsp; *THAT* is my main and only point I've tried to bring up before your derailment.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="N0Man, post: 4914794, member: 64066"] Instead of posting more inflammatory remarks, why don't you answer the question I posed. If I had personally scanned my hardcopies and OCR'd them, put them on my laptop or thumb-drive for strictly my own personal use, would you still say that I was stealing? And for the record, I was not "crowing" about it or any other such nonsense. In fact, I was reluctant to even admit it, but only did so for the sake of discussion. My whole reason for it was to make the valid and true point that you can't assume that all downloads are a sales loss. It's simply not true. I stole nothing. I deprived WotC of nothing. I bought the materials, I am not a thief. Technically you could say I committed piracy, and even that was only to obtain digital versions for my own personal use that I could have created myself under Fair Use. I'm not even going to say that what I did was right, or legal. At the very best, it would be a gray area of rationalizing, and I realize that. However, what I will argue is that I created absolutely no loss to WotC, and that it is very likely that many other exceptions exist, and *again*, downloads does not equal sales loss. *THAT* is my main and only point I've tried to bring up before your derailment. [/QUOTE]

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