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Unearthed Arcana 3.5....where besides Kazaa?
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<blockquote data-quote="Nifelhein" data-source="post: 1405712" data-attributes="member: 14129"><p>OGL is just that, open gaming material, you can use it provided that you folllow the few rules in it, you can print a thing, use other people's work that is published under the OGL terms and so on. It is not illegal and it surely is not against any moral code I am aware of.</p><p></p><p>Of course that by buying the book you are actually telling them that the work has support in the market and also, paying creators and artistst for their work. Downloading a book scan in itself canot be considered illegal, if you use the book than you are surely breaking laws, copyrights and the like, when you pay for a book you don't really buy a damn physical copy of the thing, you are paying for the material and the content, the licenses and copyrights. This is clear on the roms and emulators, one can have the rom in their computer as long as they own the cartridge.</p><p></p><p>If you have the book and then make a pdf out of it, do not share it and encourages the purchases of it, then you surely are not breaking any law, if you download the book and take a peek befoe buying it, it is okay too, to keep the pdf or not would much more make any crime harder to be defended against, that is for sure.</p><p></p><p>And also, Kazaa is a good thing, the problem is that we think we can get things for free and the truth is that we are actually getting things at the sacrifice of those who produced it. I prefer to own the book and not a single pdf has seen use out of me, be it a free download or not, I printed part of the SRD for 3.5 and used it until I got the money to buy the 3 core rules, that was in no way legal, because I had a license that made it okay.</p><p></p><p>It is really innocent a comment that says it was not the intent, yes it was, the OGL step of D&D has made to the rpg market a move much like IBM has made on computers many years ago, sure there are MAc users arpund, but how many of us have IBM structure pcs? You have the "WotC Core Rules" (Micro proceessor and Motherboard by Intel, fo example), then "FFG Legends and Lairs Series" (Video and Sound cards) and so on and so forth...</p><p></p><p>I have not downloaded anything for a long time now, reviews and previews always work well, but many publishers are still so close minded as to not release previews, which can take the lead for a puchase for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nifelhein, post: 1405712, member: 14129"] OGL is just that, open gaming material, you can use it provided that you folllow the few rules in it, you can print a thing, use other people's work that is published under the OGL terms and so on. It is not illegal and it surely is not against any moral code I am aware of. Of course that by buying the book you are actually telling them that the work has support in the market and also, paying creators and artistst for their work. Downloading a book scan in itself canot be considered illegal, if you use the book than you are surely breaking laws, copyrights and the like, when you pay for a book you don't really buy a damn physical copy of the thing, you are paying for the material and the content, the licenses and copyrights. This is clear on the roms and emulators, one can have the rom in their computer as long as they own the cartridge. If you have the book and then make a pdf out of it, do not share it and encourages the purchases of it, then you surely are not breaking any law, if you download the book and take a peek befoe buying it, it is okay too, to keep the pdf or not would much more make any crime harder to be defended against, that is for sure. And also, Kazaa is a good thing, the problem is that we think we can get things for free and the truth is that we are actually getting things at the sacrifice of those who produced it. I prefer to own the book and not a single pdf has seen use out of me, be it a free download or not, I printed part of the SRD for 3.5 and used it until I got the money to buy the 3 core rules, that was in no way legal, because I had a license that made it okay. It is really innocent a comment that says it was not the intent, yes it was, the OGL step of D&D has made to the rpg market a move much like IBM has made on computers many years ago, sure there are MAc users arpund, but how many of us have IBM structure pcs? You have the "WotC Core Rules" (Micro proceessor and Motherboard by Intel, fo example), then "FFG Legends and Lairs Series" (Video and Sound cards) and so on and so forth... I have not downloaded anything for a long time now, reviews and previews always work well, but many publishers are still so close minded as to not release previews, which can take the lead for a puchase for me. [/QUOTE]
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