Xris Robin
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Who uses scans? I'm pretty sure most of the pirated pdfs are just copies of the official ones.
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Asmor
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Alternatively:
As someone who owns the books and subscribes to the DDI, there's no excuse for claiming I don't give WotC my fair share of money.
Asmor
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The capability exists, of course.
But I'd be willing to bet that not a single person who's ever downloaded a D&D book on the internet has ever altered the PDF for the express purpose of fooling someone into thinking they didn't get their PDF from the internet.
In any case, even if they had, it would only cause a false negative. It's still statistically improbable that comparing a hash of the file would provide a false positive without some sort of shenanigans.
Campbell
Relaxed Intensity
I don't want to get into the morality of file sharing, but that distinction is fairly meaningless today given that most file sharing occurs over torrents which basically force downloaders to actually distribute content as they download.
Elephant
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It goes back a lot further than that, IIRC. Some English writers were decrying the "Pyrates" as early as the 1700s.
Blasted nasty thing to do, too, skewing discussion on one thing (infringing someone's copy privileges) by putting something viscerally unpleasant (theft and violence) in mind. It really encourages a state of affairs that disproportionally favors the privilege-holders.
Treebore
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Don't worry, the penalty for piracy isn't one I would ever want to pay, so I don't ever bother taking the risk either. I make enough money that I don't ever need to steal. Nor do I just "want to" either.
Aus_Snow
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Well, I buy PDFs. Quite regularly. I have a pretty good collection (quality-wise), I think. If something's really, truly worth owning, I'll just buy the thing.
Which doesn't have anything to do with 4e - that's not a game of quality, *IMO*, so I see no compelling reason to acquire it in any form, by any means.
So uh. . . where were we? Oh yes, 'piracy'. I'd be more concerned with the serious issues of real piracy off the coast of Africa (and elsewhere), personally. But anyway, I think I covered the basics of my own perspective on this so-called 'piracy'. d00ds, if you really want something, and will make use of it, please support the human beings who have worked hard to create that thing. Real people, real work - it's not hard to imagine how much it would suck not getting paid for whatever work it is that you do, eh? Well then. . .
Which doesn't have anything to do with 4e - that's not a game of quality, *IMO*, so I see no compelling reason to acquire it in any form, by any means.
So uh. . . where were we? Oh yes, 'piracy'. I'd be more concerned with the serious issues of real piracy off the coast of Africa (and elsewhere), personally. But anyway, I think I covered the basics of my own perspective on this so-called 'piracy'. d00ds, if you really want something, and will make use of it, please support the human beings who have worked hard to create that thing. Real people, real work - it's not hard to imagine how much it would suck not getting paid for whatever work it is that you do, eh? Well then. . .
genshou
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While I've used torrents to take a look at books before to decide if I wanted them (thank you piracy community, for letting me discover most of the d20 Modern supplement line wasn't worth a second look), I didn't take a look at 4e until the books came out. I had no desire to buy or pirate them after reading the first ten pages. My gaming group was surprised I made it that far. 
Thasmodious
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Really? How did that internal conversation go? Something like this?
"What the heck is this crap? Roleplaying? Fantastic worlds? Player Characters? Dungeon Masters? Adventures!? Game books and dice? Exploration? Taking turns?! Oh Gods! What have those bastards done to D&D!" *shakes fist*
I'm betting it was something like that
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