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Old 04-08-2018, 01:51 PM   #14
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Default Re: Counterfeit Games

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Originally Posted by lachimba View Post
Interesting.

I don't believe reporting "one guy" as a personal anecdote is at all the same sort of scale that is being claimed though.
A couple years back, a european court hit a games company with a creators rights infraction for a paraphrased rulebook and new art.

Many Russian versions of games are unlicensed. Most chinese produced chinese versions are pirated, often directly from the PDFs sent for printing.

The D&D 4E PDFs leaked to the net the day before release day were the printer's PDFs at high resolution; either someone did a man-in-the-middle, or an employee leaked it. Either at Wizards, or at the printer they used.

BGG has a whole list of unauthorized editions. https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/3...rized-editions
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