Originally Posted by
Mdegenhart
Do you buy an out-of-print book to read and think it is okay to make ten photocopies for your friends?
Photocopied? No, but I have let friends borrow books from me to read.
In this context, I guess that'd be closest to an in-person gathering that passes around one person's copy of a pattern. Which isn't to say people couldn't make their own copies by, say, taking a picture of the pattern or writing it down (just like my friends who borrow my books could do the same thing with those if they were inclined)