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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 7692596" data-attributes="member: 6701872">That makes literally zero sense - cracking the security of an OEF document like a for-sale PDF is always going to be higher quality than a pirate scan, and always going to be more expedient than a pirate-built electronic re-build.Of course, my experience with pirates is that there are two patterns of behavior that they basically all have fallen into: pirating a PDF as a preview and then buying whatever format the product is available in legally if they like the book and are going to use it (i.e. pirate the 5th edition PHB, read it, then buy a print copy); and pirating a PDF, period, end of their interest whether they end up using that book or not.The first type of which are not harmful to how many books sell, but might be harmful to how much profit is gained by each book sold if the profit margin on purchase option B (a pdf) or C (Amazon and other discounted sellers) is smaller than the profit margin on purchase option A (the brick & mortar shops that get WotC stuff a couple weeks earlier than other outlets).The second type have no effect on number of books sold, nor on profit per book sold, on account of that they never buy anything (and some even think companies are doing something wrong by even asking to be paid for their wares in the first place).</blockquote>