Talk Like a Pirate Day

[beetiger]

"Music swapping shouldn't be illegal. It's not like I'm selling it."

"Microsoft has too damned much money anyway. It's pretty much a moral good to be sending that software around. Here, need a serial number generator?"

"If they don't want that stuff to be scanned and on the Web, they should pursue those sites and have them take it down. I'm just taking what's available to me."

"I just photocopied my GMs copy. I'm only playing in this one campaign, so it doesn't really pay to buy the book."

"I don't need to buy prints from that artist. I can just get his stuff from Elfwood and print it on my own printer. Art should be free! I hear he's full of himself anyway."

"I'll buy this stuff instead of downloading when I have more money. I really will."

Arrr!

Comments

[secanth.livejournal.com]

This discussion also goes on in the needlework circles regarding charts. Most of them state on the chart that *one* working copy can be made for yourself.

As you might guess, it gets heated over there. Is selling the charts at a yard sale wrong? Giving them to a friend? Obviously, making copies to give to a class is a no-no...but making copies for your cousin?

And then there's E-bay, which has periodic problems with people scanning charts in, making a few minor changes (removing a border say) and reselling them as their own design, persumably because they think no one will noice.

I once got a free chart from Kustom Krafts for pointing one of these folk out to them.