Archibald Theocliste
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Hmmm, I want to jump into the lava pool too…
Ok I know what is piracy and piracy is illegal, I will never try to justify myself, if I own copies of documents while not owning the original I am wrong! So if I know it’s wrong I won’t do it right?
Well, here we go : let’s just say I own the following books from WOTC (purchased at full price) : Player’s Handbook, DMG, MM, MM2, Psionic Handbook, ELH, Manual of the Planes, D&Demigods, BoVD, FRCS, Faiths and Pantheons, Monsters of Faerun, Lords of Darkness, Silver Marches, D20 Modern, WoT, CoC, SWRPG.
And let’s just say now that I downloaded all the five classbooks without owning the originals considering they are overpriced for their use at my gaming table, what will you do if you were WotC? If someone tell me that my life will become Hell on Earth cause of these classbooks I’ll just say that I will no longer buy the future products the company. The Splatbook cost 150$ that won’t go to the company but the other books cost around 800$ and I’ll buy all the future Hardcovers from WotC and FR Softcovers so do you really want to sue me now, gain back your $ and lost me forever as a regular customer? Am I less important to WotC with my 800$ spent vs 150$ stolen (Steal bad! Kids don’t steal!) than someone who legaly purchased 60$ of products in his whole life?
As I said I’m not trying to justify anything, to me it is a fact. If a company sell Online products, knowing that I downloaded 10 of their products but own on my hard drive an illegal copy of an eleventh one will they take the risk to sue me and lost me as a regular buyer? Of course my attitude toward this company is ambiguous since I’m supposed to be a loyal customer but you can’t expect people to buy 100% of the products they need if :
1/ They consider the product overpriced for the use or including only 50% or so usable material.
2/ They are low on cash, especially if they already spend a lot of their money buying RPG books.
3/ Whatever reason they think make them feel right in their own mind…
Maybe I’m completely wrong here but it seems to me that if you attack these pirates (cause they are pirates anyway!), you’ll win law-wise, but in the end your company will be the real loser!
P.S. : My english must be horrible, sorry for scorching your eyes with my post
Ok I know what is piracy and piracy is illegal, I will never try to justify myself, if I own copies of documents while not owning the original I am wrong! So if I know it’s wrong I won’t do it right?
Well, here we go : let’s just say I own the following books from WOTC (purchased at full price) : Player’s Handbook, DMG, MM, MM2, Psionic Handbook, ELH, Manual of the Planes, D&Demigods, BoVD, FRCS, Faiths and Pantheons, Monsters of Faerun, Lords of Darkness, Silver Marches, D20 Modern, WoT, CoC, SWRPG.
And let’s just say now that I downloaded all the five classbooks without owning the originals considering they are overpriced for their use at my gaming table, what will you do if you were WotC? If someone tell me that my life will become Hell on Earth cause of these classbooks I’ll just say that I will no longer buy the future products the company. The Splatbook cost 150$ that won’t go to the company but the other books cost around 800$ and I’ll buy all the future Hardcovers from WotC and FR Softcovers so do you really want to sue me now, gain back your $ and lost me forever as a regular customer? Am I less important to WotC with my 800$ spent vs 150$ stolen (Steal bad! Kids don’t steal!) than someone who legaly purchased 60$ of products in his whole life?
As I said I’m not trying to justify anything, to me it is a fact. If a company sell Online products, knowing that I downloaded 10 of their products but own on my hard drive an illegal copy of an eleventh one will they take the risk to sue me and lost me as a regular buyer? Of course my attitude toward this company is ambiguous since I’m supposed to be a loyal customer but you can’t expect people to buy 100% of the products they need if :
1/ They consider the product overpriced for the use or including only 50% or so usable material.
2/ They are low on cash, especially if they already spend a lot of their money buying RPG books.
3/ Whatever reason they think make them feel right in their own mind…
Maybe I’m completely wrong here but it seems to me that if you attack these pirates (cause they are pirates anyway!), you’ll win law-wise, but in the end your company will be the real loser!
P.S. : My english must be horrible, sorry for scorching your eyes with my post
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