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<blockquote data-quote="Beginning of the End" data-source="post: 4742834" data-attributes="member: 55271"><p>Wow, you just discovered online piracy? Welcome to 1982, guys.</p><p></p><p>And you've decided that pissing off your customer base by retroactively changing the terms under which they purchased the products is a good idea?</p><p></p><p>And you've decided to remove the only legal ways to electronically purchase your products, thereby further encouraging the piracy you're trying to prevent?</p><p></p><p>And you're suggesting a DRM future for your digital products, in an era when every other media industry is moving away from DRM because they recognize it as having failed yet again?</p><p></p><p>And you're apparently unaware that every single product ever published by TSR or WotC is already available, meaning that for those extant products you're trying to shut the barn door after the horses have run away?</p><p></p><p>And even that's assuming that products won't be pirated through the simple expedience of a scanner, despite all evidence to the contrary.</p><p></p><p>I see three possibilities here:</p><p></p><p>(1) You're using piracy as a mask for pulling these licenses so that you can offer these materials through your own website.</p><p></p><p>(2) You've decided that having previous edition material commercially available in any form is "competing against yourself", so you're taking action to remove it from the market.</p><p></p><p>(3) I'm ignoring an admin's instructions about not attacking people, and will get suspended if it happens again.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: red"><em>Fixed one point for you. ~ Piratecat</em></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beginning of the End, post: 4742834, member: 55271"] Wow, you just discovered online piracy? Welcome to 1982, guys. And you've decided that pissing off your customer base by retroactively changing the terms under which they purchased the products is a good idea? And you've decided to remove the only legal ways to electronically purchase your products, thereby further encouraging the piracy you're trying to prevent? And you're suggesting a DRM future for your digital products, in an era when every other media industry is moving away from DRM because they recognize it as having failed yet again? And you're apparently unaware that every single product ever published by TSR or WotC is already available, meaning that for those extant products you're trying to shut the barn door after the horses have run away? And even that's assuming that products won't be pirated through the simple expedience of a scanner, despite all evidence to the contrary. I see three possibilities here: (1) You're using piracy as a mask for pulling these licenses so that you can offer these materials through your own website. (2) You've decided that having previous edition material commercially available in any form is "competing against yourself", so you're taking action to remove it from the market. (3) I'm ignoring an admin's instructions about not attacking people, and will get suspended if it happens again. [color=red][i]Fixed one point for you. ~ Piratecat[/i][/color] [/QUOTE]
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