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<blockquote data-quote="CardinalXimenes" data-source="post: 4749680" data-attributes="member: 58259"><p>Comments like this aren't terribly useful for conveying rational arguments, ProfessorCirno. I'd encourage you to develop your theories with a little more rigor.</p><p></p><p>My theory is that eliminating a reliably certain source of zero-hour, maximum-quality PDFs will delay the torrenting of product PDFs by a nontrivial amount- and moreover, this window of delay will be anticipated by people desiring the product. Anyone not willing to wait through that window of delay will therefore either preorder the hardcopy or visit the bookstore during the window. I'd hypothesize that these sales will outweigh the profits to be had for a 10:1 ratio of pirated to sold PDFs.</p><p></p><p>One could say that this is piffle, and that the vast majority of pirates will be perfectly willing to wait several days to get their PDFs. That may be the case- but if it is, WotC only needs 11 out of 100 to get impatient and they'll better the ratio that they're working with now, and feed the book's sales numbers with a set of vendors they love much more than online-only operations.</p><p></p><p>Of course, if you have hard numbers to suggest that a window of delay is no use at all in decreasing piracy when a comparable product is available for sale, ProfessorCirno, I'd welcome seeing them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CardinalXimenes, post: 4749680, member: 58259"] Comments like this aren't terribly useful for conveying rational arguments, ProfessorCirno. I'd encourage you to develop your theories with a little more rigor. My theory is that eliminating a reliably certain source of zero-hour, maximum-quality PDFs will delay the torrenting of product PDFs by a nontrivial amount- and moreover, this window of delay will be anticipated by people desiring the product. Anyone not willing to wait through that window of delay will therefore either preorder the hardcopy or visit the bookstore during the window. I'd hypothesize that these sales will outweigh the profits to be had for a 10:1 ratio of pirated to sold PDFs. One could say that this is piffle, and that the vast majority of pirates will be perfectly willing to wait several days to get their PDFs. That may be the case- but if it is, WotC only needs 11 out of 100 to get impatient and they'll better the ratio that they're working with now, and feed the book's sales numbers with a set of vendors they love much more than online-only operations. Of course, if you have hard numbers to suggest that a window of delay is no use at all in decreasing piracy when a comparable product is available for sale, ProfessorCirno, I'd welcome seeing them. [/QUOTE]
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