## Moral Rule Our Sharing Policy and Principles derives from one simple moral rule: >**We do not intend to negatively impact sales** of NieR and Drakengard items (and other intellectual properties covered on our website). ## Principles ### Availability The Availability principle is a direct application of our Moral Rule. **We do not share content that’s currently available for sale** (digitally or physically) through official market places (i.e. Square Enix Store), or third-party marketplaces (such as Amazon). This doesn’t include second-hand market, used items, or if the item is discontinued/out-of-print. Language-dependency, must be considered when judging the Availability of an item. ### Language-dependency Novels are the prime example of an item for which the target demographic is defined by its language. We call this sort of items “language-dependent“. In other words: - For **language-dependent** items, we consider each edition of the item independently, as each of them are targeting non-overlapping demographics. - For **language-independent** items (such as artbooks, music,…) all the language-specific editions must be considered together. ### Substituability Substituability means that the content shared would be sufficiently close to the source material to provide a similar experience. For example, game ROMs, music from a soundtrack, copies of Blu-rays, would provide virtually the same experience as the source material: those are clearly substitutes. On the contrary, illustrations in a novel, cover art, frame from a video, game textures or screenshots… all of these are sufficiently disconnected from the source material to not be considered substitutes. ## Content-type Specific Rules Please find below precise information concerning the type of content we intent to share with visitors of our website. ### ROMs **Def**: A dump of a digital video game’s software. Can be used to play a game on emulator or modified hardware. **Our policy**: We do not host nor share ROMs as it would violate the Substituability principle. ### Scans **Def**: Reproduction of the cover/pages of a physical medium (novel, guide book, scorebook, artbook, manga, comic, user guide, cover, poster, CD/DVD/Blu-ray design…) and distributed as a set of images or a PDF. It’s important to think of scans as **a set** as to not include individual images/artworks. **Our policy:** Sharing scans is fine as long as the Availability principles doesn’t apply. ### Images **Examples**: drawing, painting, illustration, concept art… any pictural art taken from a book, a frame of video, a game. **Our policy**: Sharing images is fine even if the Availability principle applies, as long as it doesn’t violate the Substituability principle. ### Music **Examples**: Soundtrack, either distributed physically, digitally, or ripped from game files. **Our policy**: Sharing music is only possible if the Availability principle doesn’t apply (which means almost never because the soundtracks are often available on streaming services). ### Videos **Examples**: Copies of Blu-rays, DVDs, in-game cutscenes, promotional ads… **Our policy**: Sharing videos is only possible if the Availability principle doesn’t apply. ### Texts **Examples**: Textual content such as novels, novellas, weapon and character stories, in-game documents, in-game dialogues, video transcripts (subtitles), information from Guide books… it can be direct transcriptions or fan-translations. **Our policy**: Sharing texts is fine even if the Availability principle applies, as long as it doesn’t violate the Substituability principle.

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