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<blockquote data-quote="maddman75" data-source="post: 4676428" data-attributes="member: 2673">I'll cop to having pirated books before, though not the 4e ones.&nbsp; I don't like PDFs and rarely buy them - only if its short enough that printing is affordable.&nbsp; And then I still have a product very much inferior to a printed book, so it has to be really cheap.&nbsp; $10 is probably my absolute cutoff for a PDF.I do like to have them on my laptop for reference when doing game prep, so I'll get PDFs after I buy the books.&nbsp; As posted, it is perfectly legal for me to scan and create a PDF of my own book, therefore I see no ethical problem with downloading a copy.&nbsp; Prove that I didn't do so - data is data, and it doesn't care who copied it.The rights of copyright holders is way too strong right now.&nbsp; Companies will do best when they stop worrying about it so much, IMO.&nbsp; Most pirates aren't lost customers, they're people with very little money anyway who collect them because they can.&nbsp; They don't do anything with them, and wouldn't buy them if they weren't available for download.&nbsp; IME anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="maddman75, post: 4676428, member: 2673"] I'll cop to having pirated books before, though not the 4e ones. I don't like PDFs and rarely buy them - only if its short enough that printing is affordable. And then I still have a product very much inferior to a printed book, so it has to be really cheap. $10 is probably my absolute cutoff for a PDF. I do like to have them on my laptop for reference when doing game prep, so I'll get PDFs after I buy the books. As posted, it is perfectly legal for me to scan and create a PDF of my own book, therefore I see no ethical problem with downloading a copy. Prove that I didn't do so - data is data, and it doesn't care who copied it. The rights of copyright holders is way too strong right now. Companies will do best when they stop worrying about it so much, IMO. Most pirates aren't lost customers, they're people with very little money anyway who collect them because they can. They don't do anything with them, and wouldn't buy them if they weren't available for download. IME anyway. [/QUOTE]

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