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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silverblade The Ench" data-source="post: 4749840" data-attributes="member: 19083"> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">As folk note, many P2P junkies out there just collect stuff, regardless.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Downloads doesn't mean they read or even used it, so that is not a lost sale!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If someone cannot afford the books, and they pirate, good, because they may just then BUY the actual books, they sure as hell will not, otherwise. Piracy = free advertizing! Computer game companies know that (but won't admit it). Also, see how Electornics Art were forced to back down from their asinine DRM garbage last month, as fans hammered them for it, it ruined sales and never stopped piracy.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Call me weird, but I don't see WTH I should pay the anything like the same for a pdf as for a hard copy. Hard copy = real finite stuff, it's a book, it has ot be shipped, it even adds up ot our environmental mess. But a pdf. can be "shipped" a billion times across the globe in seconds. Sell all pdfs for 1 to 5$ based on file size, not current edition, and you'll get more sales.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I buy an assload of D&D books, but it's become too much hassle now, I'm the DM, I will NOT carry all that weight to a pal's house to play. WTH should the pal have to buy books he will never  or rarely use? Put it on cheap pdfs and d I'll take it along on a laptop!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Yup, folk will still scan and thus, you will sitll get pirate pdfs, WOTC has taken themselves out of the market for that and will thus be wiped out, as it's the market to get into, now.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You cannot lose a sale you'd never have, you can get sales for advertizing, which is what the pirate copies are. You may be surprised how many folk got into a subject after trying somehting online, be it a game, art, programming or whatever.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Pirates are potential customers, anger your customers off at your commercial peril! See Metallica relaizing hammering Napster etc was the worst thing they ever did.</li> </ul>Meh, it's like WOTC has completely lost the plot :/ They honestly don't have a grasp on how things are really going, typical corporate "suitery".</blockquote>

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