There is plenty of pifing and trading going on outside of these boards, but if you don't have any buddies to trade with whose fault is that?

I've been out the loop for a while mainly because of money but i have sent out plenty of discs and not charged for the blanks or the postage.

Like Moth3r said they is a legal risk involved in sending these discs out.

When i send a fanedit or preservation disc to someone, the unwritten rule of the community is that the dude i send it too does not put it up on ebay.

Of course there are those projects that only a few get copies of because the creator asks that the disc not be distributed beyond that closed group of people.