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<blockquote data-quote="Bagpuss" data-source="post: 4743358" data-attributes="member: 3987"><p>I cannot believe this is true, it was well known that even before WotC entered the PDF market that their books were available on file sharing sites, often well scanned with OCR.</p><p></p><p>Part of the reason they went into the market was because customers were demanding the service so they didn't have to be criminals in order to have books in PDF format. By removing the only legal source of WotC PDF, they are just making criminals of people again.</p><p></p><p>They can't pretend that they have suddenly discovered that piracy exists.</p><p></p><p>I really suspect that real the motivation behind this is tied to <a href="http://ww2.wizards.com/Company/Press/?doc=20090406" target="_blank">this court case</a>. Since in order to defend a copyright you have to demonstrate you are making efforts to protect it. I would not be surprised if they had not been advised by lawyers that this will help their case.</p><p></p><p>If piracy was really effecting sales would the PHB2 be up on the top sellers lists? Would it selling better than expected?</p><p></p><p>Charles Ryan checking into why Amazon.co.uk is delayed shipping.</p><p><em></em></p><p><em>"OK, here's the scoop: <strong>Demand for this book has exceeded supply.</strong> The book channel in particular has had unforeseen levels of demand. Amazon.uk may well be out of the PHB2 (we don't have point of sale data on it yet, so I can't confirm that); if that's the case, it will likely be several weeks before they have more."</em></p><p></p><p>So piracy of the PHB2 has lead to a loss of sales? Maybe it has lead to a loss in sales of the PDF version of the book, but as we have seen WotC isn't interested in PDF sales at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bagpuss, post: 4743358, member: 3987"] I cannot believe this is true, it was well known that even before WotC entered the PDF market that their books were available on file sharing sites, often well scanned with OCR. Part of the reason they went into the market was because customers were demanding the service so they didn't have to be criminals in order to have books in PDF format. By removing the only legal source of WotC PDF, they are just making criminals of people again. They can't pretend that they have suddenly discovered that piracy exists. I really suspect that real the motivation behind this is tied to [URL="http://ww2.wizards.com/Company/Press/?doc=20090406"]this court case[/URL]. Since in order to defend a copyright you have to demonstrate you are making efforts to protect it. I would not be surprised if they had not been advised by lawyers that this will help their case. If piracy was really effecting sales would the PHB2 be up on the top sellers lists? Would it selling better than expected? Charles Ryan checking into why Amazon.co.uk is delayed shipping. [I] "OK, here's the scoop: [B]Demand for this book has exceeded supply.[/B] The book channel in particular has had unforeseen levels of demand. Amazon.uk may well be out of the PHB2 (we don't have point of sale data on it yet, so I can't confirm that); if that's the case, it will likely be several weeks before they have more."[/I] So piracy of the PHB2 has lead to a loss of sales? Maybe it has lead to a loss in sales of the PDF version of the book, but as we have seen WotC isn't interested in PDF sales at all. [/QUOTE]
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