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Originally Posted by Logseman
I only pay for something if I have to. I download everything from the darknet, for it is the only way that I can satisfy my wide array of tastes. If I were more computer savvy I'd anonimize my PC completely and use proxies to circumvent geographic restrictions. The companies do have their goal very clear, which is winning money. I have my goal clear as well: spend the least money and time possible.
And before I get the lecture of "you're stealing", all of what I've published (translations, mainly) is under the conditions of a Creative Commons 3.0 licence which allows unfettered use of the text and only puts a condition to identify its source. Abiding to that, I won't download anything whose author is not clear in the specs or the metadata. I want to know who did what I like, and hope that if someone likes my work they'll want to know who did it.
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Just because you give away what you write, doesn't mean that it is ok to take stuff from others. Not trying to be offensive, but a lot of people give away what they have written because it wasn't good enough for anyone to waste money on. (I am in that category myself.Unfortunately, most of what I have written falls in that category. The only stuff that I have written that people would people would normally pay for are scenarios for DnD. The other stuff I sold to online mags that the consumers didn't really buy because of me.) So giving away some stuff you write that others wouldn't pay for is not in the same league as taking without paying the latest blockbusters.
Also just because you know who wrote what you stole doesn't make it ok. It just means you know who you ripped off.