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<blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 9468872" data-attributes="member: 67338">I trust you However just to make this ironic... I can't read that article it's behind a pay wall (a GREAT example of hopefully the writer getting paid). this is a weird argument I don't get... it's like saying &quot;Your dog isn't getting free food YOU paid for it&quot; or (it is the week of my birthday) the 3 times I am getting taken out to eat this week isn't &quot;Free food&quot; cause my mom, my sister and my best friend are paying... I will say when/if my wife takes me out that ISN'T free cause our money is Fungible. No the website I used isn't free cause it cost nothing to make, it's free because I can use it without it costing ME money.We all draw our ethical lines somewhere... I have friends (who are writers) who torient or what ever the new way to get PDFs is for free RPG books. Text Books, and comic books... in at least 1 case an entire novel.&nbsp;&nbsp; I wont, but I have an exception, if I buy the book AND one of them has a PDF I will take a copy from them... that's where i draw my line. When I was WAY younger in late 90s early 2000s I thought bootleg movies were awesome... I wouldn't buy one today. I am not going to call someone a thief if they DO own pirated stuff though. I think we all have our own lines. If I ever get off my butt and write my own retroclone and sell it online, any art will come from artists, not AI (unless the artists passes off AI as there work) and will be credited... If however I am running a game that I am not paid for, no one is watching but me and my players I have no problem using AI art</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GMforPowergamers, post: 9468872, member: 67338"] I trust you However just to make this ironic... I can't read that article it's behind a pay wall (a GREAT example of hopefully the writer getting paid). this is a weird argument I don't get... it's like saying "Your dog isn't getting free food YOU paid for it" or (it is the week of my birthday) the 3 times I am getting taken out to eat this week isn't "Free food" cause my mom, my sister and my best friend are paying... I will say when/if my wife takes me out that ISN'T free cause our money is Fungible. No the website I used isn't free cause it cost nothing to make, it's free because I can use it without it costing ME money. We all draw our ethical lines somewhere... I have friends (who are writers) who torient or what ever the new way to get PDFs is for free RPG books. Text Books, and comic books... in at least 1 case an entire novel. I wont, but I have an exception, if I buy the book AND one of them has a PDF I will take a copy from them... that's where i draw my line. When I was WAY younger in late 90s early 2000s I thought bootleg movies were awesome... I wouldn't buy one today. I am not going to call someone a thief if they DO own pirated stuff though. I think we all have our own lines. If I ever get off my butt and write my own retroclone and sell it online, any art will come from artists, not AI (unless the artists passes off AI as there work) and will be credited... If however I am running a game that I am not paid for, no one is watching but me and my players I have no problem using AI art [/QUOTE]

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