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<blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 9273821" data-attributes="member: 5142"><p>I do not support piracy. That said, I can understand, however, why even some "non-pirates" would be miffed by the loss of the Trove, regardless of its negative impact in how it enabled and empowered piracy in the hobby. </p><p></p><p>On the one hand, it is abundantly obvious that its primary use was as a TTRPG piracy website that harmed the ability for creatives in our hobby to earn income from their products. </p><p></p><p>On the other hand, the Trove also functioned something like an archive for a lot of out-of-print books, magazines, and other publications that can no longer be found anywhere for sale on the market or accessed by conventional means for whatever reason. Non-pirates would not even have a way to acquire some of these products legally even if they wanted to. And I am hard-pressed to come up with whether there is even some other digital archive or library where these things could be found. But again, <em>the primary purpose</em> of the Trove was piracy, which I also do not endorse. </p><p></p><p>I would note, however, that people were encouraging this sort of unofficial/illegal archiving of media content when a number of major media studios were (and still are) pulling and purging various media properties from streaming services and film archives for the sake of profit, savings, and tax write-offs. The two situations are definitely not entirely comparable, but I do think that people fear the loss of created works to the ages or that these works become inaccessible to the public.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aldarc, post: 9273821, member: 5142"] I do not support piracy. That said, I can understand, however, why even some "non-pirates" would be miffed by the loss of the Trove, regardless of its negative impact in how it enabled and empowered piracy in the hobby. On the one hand, it is abundantly obvious that its primary use was as a TTRPG piracy website that harmed the ability for creatives in our hobby to earn income from their products. On the other hand, the Trove also functioned something like an archive for a lot of out-of-print books, magazines, and other publications that can no longer be found anywhere for sale on the market or accessed by conventional means for whatever reason. Non-pirates would not even have a way to acquire some of these products legally even if they wanted to. And I am hard-pressed to come up with whether there is even some other digital archive or library where these things could be found. But again, [I]the primary purpose[/I] of the Trove was piracy, which I also do not endorse. I would note, however, that people were encouraging this sort of unofficial/illegal archiving of media content when a number of major media studios were (and still are) pulling and purging various media properties from streaming services and film archives for the sake of profit, savings, and tax write-offs. The two situations are definitely not entirely comparable, but I do think that people fear the loss of created works to the ages or that these works become inaccessible to the public. [/QUOTE]
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