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<blockquote data-quote="Hodgie" data-source="post: 2719850" data-attributes="member: 29204"><p>The RPG industry is in a unique situation to piracy in my opinion. Someone who wants to steal music will steal it alone, listen to it alone, and then port it onto an iPod which makes it indistinguishable from legitimately acquired music. The same is true of DVDs, people can't really tell it is pirated while it is in use.</p><p></p><p>Were people to be pirating PDFs and then not using them I wouldn't be too concerned. If they are only collecting them (for whatever reason) they weren't going to buy them, they didn't really get anything for free, and no one lost out. </p><p></p><p>But people are using pirated PDFs, and this means that their friends are seeing them do this. I, evidently like many others, require than any material used at the table be owned by someone at the table simply out of courtesy to the industry. The RPG players are the best defense against RPG piracy.</p><p></p><p>Friends don't let friends used pirated PDFs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hodgie, post: 2719850, member: 29204"] The RPG industry is in a unique situation to piracy in my opinion. Someone who wants to steal music will steal it alone, listen to it alone, and then port it onto an iPod which makes it indistinguishable from legitimately acquired music. The same is true of DVDs, people can't really tell it is pirated while it is in use. Were people to be pirating PDFs and then not using them I wouldn't be too concerned. If they are only collecting them (for whatever reason) they weren't going to buy them, they didn't really get anything for free, and no one lost out. But people are using pirated PDFs, and this means that their friends are seeing them do this. I, evidently like many others, require than any material used at the table be owned by someone at the table simply out of courtesy to the industry. The RPG players are the best defense against RPG piracy. Friends don't let friends used pirated PDFs. [/QUOTE]
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