Aberzanzorax
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Jeez.
It's like WotC is actively TRYING to hurt their public image with customers.
It's like WotC is actively TRYING to hurt their public image with customers.
Arguably you have the right to the product purchased, along with the number of downloads that are made available to you?
Woh, that is not good.
I haven't got any as yet but will do soon when my eReader arrives. How can they stop you getting copies of PDFs you have already purchased????????
Disclaimer: this is based on my understanding of sales in general and statements in this thread, not any specific knowledge. This isn't legal advice, etc, etc, etc.jdrakeh said:If this does come to pass, somebody up in Seattle needs to credit me for my past purchases of WotC product that still have downloads remaining. Changing an agreement after somebody purchases things might be legal but it's still a load of horse pucky.
Uhm... I just checked out Drivethru and RPGNow, and I can buy WOTC products, still.
When does this go into effect?
(I got as far as checkout, I didn't actually try to buy anything, but if you can add them to your cart, I don't see why you can't buy...)
I bet you're right, but this move will have no effect. In fact, I bet it increases the amount of books that are pirated; harder to feel bad about downloading a book via bittorrent if their is no way to buy it.
Most likely, RPGNOW promised you something that, in the event of a cancelation of their separate contract with WotC, they cannot honor. They probably shouldn't have done that.
Uniquely watermarked PDFs is the way WotC really, really needs to go with this. That way, if they wanted to identify a leaked PDF they'd know who it is.
There are a lot of watermarks out there that bury themselves within artwork and borders that are entirely undiscernable to the naked eye.
Yeah, I tried that too. . . I didn't want to go any further, for fear that I'd be billed for stuff I couldn't actually download. I suspect that turning off the shopping cart for 900+ items may take a little time if the webmaster is out of the office. If this is related to the press release I cited above, they (OBS) may have just received the notice this afternoon.