This is a digital age, it's no longer the 19th century, copyright laws are a joke for digital information...we're beaming everytting constantly out into space, for goodness sake! LOL.
Financial theft (selling things, that is), claiming to be creators when you are not, should be stomped on, but you aren't going to stop piracy...
You can be stupid, like the RIAA, who've spat on, and ridiculed their customers and artists for years and then took a HUGE dump on the customers with thier insane Mp3 witch hunt...and then they wonder why their record sales are going down the tubes?! lol.
Here's an idea for D&D:
The
DDI subscriber thing, why not have an additional service, say $5 a month,for free pdfs of ANY D&D product. Think about it...how many folk would sign up for that...how much revenue would it engender!
There's two ways to defeat an enemy:
a) be an idiot and die out by futile war of attrition (in which case they are no longer a threat as your gone, hehe)
b) Don't out fight them,
out think them first.
Rather than antagonize customers, like the RIAA has done.,
WOTC needs to entice them.
What do customers want?
Good quality PDFs that don't have malware/vrisues as a possible kick in the pants.
Why do customers want them?
To save money and to have a simple, light reference on a game table, NOT to totally replace the actual books.
Books are way too damned heavy for me nowadays, so I only take the three core books and my toolbooks of minis/dice, and frankly that's too much. I'd LOVE to be able to get pdfs, put them on a laptop for me, as DM, to check rules. if
WOTC put out printable pdfs of combat sites (like in
KOTS), that would rule.
I'm very very happy to pay for D&D *points to D&D filled bookcase and room*, but I'm NOT going ot pay full price for flipping PDFs!!! D&D books are fun to read, that's part of their charm, they are works of art. PDFs are just like a thesaurus or monkey wrench.
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