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Faithdreamer
2008-03-28, 02:17 PM
When someone offers copyrighted materials for free over the internet it’s widely considered illegal. It’s illegal to obtain or distribute things like songs or D&D rules over programs like Napster, Kazaa, Morpheus or websites that achieve the same sharing way.

If someone uploaded a PDF to a website for a forum-goer to download to their own PC for free isn’t this illegal?

Doesn’t the same law work the same way for the indexes some sites provide?

Examples are ‘crystalkeep’ PDF downloads, and the site that lists all the feats from those books...?

It would be beneficial us if someone provided more information.

Roland St. Jude
2008-03-28, 10:42 PM
Sheriff of Moddingham: The bulk of this thread has been moved to The Dump. It may be returned, if the meaningful parts of the thread can be severed from the numerous references to infringing websites. We'll look into it, but we can't have a list of places to go for bootleg info.

(And, yes, I realize that part of the discussion involved whether they were infringing, under contract, tacitly permitted, etc. Whatever their official legal status in various jurisdictions and regardless of WotC's enforcement (or lack thereof), we'd rather not become a repository of links or references to such sites.)