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Regarding Piracy (self.dnd)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Brunbrun6766 to c/dnd

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I am bringing this up as we have had our first case of questionable links posted.

I ask that we as a community please don't post links to streaming sites, direct downloads, magnet links, etc. related to piracy.

While this is not current against the rules of .world, it is within our best interest to not be posting things like that, for the sake of the instance admins.

This is subject to change in the future of course, but at the moment it is an unanswered question and so we will not be allowing this at the moment.

UPDATED HERE https://lemmy.world/post/661699

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One problem with that.

Older materials can be out of print, and thus impossible to get any other way.

In print stuff? Makes sense to not pirate (even wotc needs cash flow to function). But stuff that isn't, it either gets archived and spread via p2p/piracy, or it dies.

Just as an example, I have the original box sets. They're still usable even, because I've taken pains to make sure of that. But if I wanted to run a game with that stuff, it wouldn't take much for it all to fall apart. It's irreplaceable without digitizing. And, sure my kid is going to have the choice to sell or keep it, but other people's kids won't. Losing the material is a much greater loss to the world than whatever downstream affects piracy of that material may bring.

[–] Brunbrun6766 16 points 1 year ago

Listen, I agree with you completely but this is for the sake of lemmy.world at the moment, until .world gives an official policy on piracy, then we have to assume it's a no for the sake of avoiding legal issues for the admins of the instance. And like I said, what you send to each other in DMs is entirely up to you.

[–] tidy_frog 1 points 1 year ago

The original red box is for sale as a watermarked PDF for about $5 on the DMsGuild site. Search for the D&D Basic Set - Player's Manual (BECMI ed.) (Basic)

They've digitized every book they ever produced for the DMsGuild. It's all there (there might be exceptions...but I have no idea what's missing. It's very, very thorough)