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[HoE] Re: [DL] Copyright laws and such [SHANE]



In a message dated 5/10/99 1:54:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
purcell37@hotmail.com writes:

<< As an offer to Pinnacle, I would be willing to do whatever you would like 
in 
 regards to distribution.  Having the posse section available to other 
 Marshal's via web or ftp, offering the first chapter so people could get a 
 taste of the game, or not give copies of the file to anyone but my own 
 players..or obviously, not reproduce the book in any way b/c of the 
 copyright violations.
 
 Thank you for your time
 Later
 Patrick "please" Purcell >>

Well, Patrick, in truth, it is against the copyright laws. And though it 
might not happen in *your* group, the reason we originally put the player's 
sectiosn *in* the books was to encourage players to buy them too. See, the 
way rpgs normally work, only one person in the group can or does ever buy a 
company's releases. We tried to structure things in such a way that multiple 
players could buy copies (our rule is that 80% of each book is player 
material). So for a Marshal to copy the player's section and give them away 
*does* hurt our sales. Again, maybe not for your group, but for most.

Sorry, but I've always found honesty's the best policy, and that's the truth 
as we see it.

Shane