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<blockquote data-quote="Scribble" data-source="post: 3852379" data-attributes="member: 23977">Exactly... I'm pretty sure WOTC knows that they aren't going to be the company that somehow manages to defeat digital piracy once and for all.They're just taking a tip from itunes... People are for the most part honest. People are also, for the moster part, lazy and cheap. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />If you make the legal copy easy to get, and not very much money, it will be less of a PITA to just buy the thing, and DL it, instead of wasting hours online searching for a copy that is both good and doesn't have a virus attached. Plus it works with their other online stuff. (And I'm guessing the people they're marketing this too are people like me. Who like the hard copy, but want the digital copy for game prep.)They also protect the brick and morter shops as well. Instead of forcing an either or, they make the two products work in synch. What I think they will do is have some sort of system like they have when you buy gift cards, or phone cards...&nbsp; You can steal the card, but it won't do a darn thing unless it's been activated by the cashier. Easy to do with an RFID tag. Small enough to fit in the book without making it awkward.Won't do much for the second hand book trade, but as other have said, thats not really WOTCs concern.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scribble, post: 3852379, member: 23977"] Exactly... I'm pretty sure WOTC knows that they aren't going to be the company that somehow manages to defeat digital piracy once and for all. They're just taking a tip from itunes... People are for the most part honest. People are also, for the moster part, lazy and cheap. :) If you make the legal copy easy to get, and not very much money, it will be less of a PITA to just buy the thing, and DL it, instead of wasting hours online searching for a copy that is both good and doesn't have a virus attached. Plus it works with their other online stuff. (And I'm guessing the people they're marketing this too are people like me. Who like the hard copy, but want the digital copy for game prep.) They also protect the brick and morter shops as well. Instead of forcing an either or, they make the two products work in synch. What I think they will do is have some sort of system like they have when you buy gift cards, or phone cards... You can steal the card, but it won't do a darn thing unless it's been activated by the cashier. Easy to do with an RFID tag. Small enough to fit in the book without making it awkward. Won't do much for the second hand book trade, but as other have said, thats not really WOTCs concern. [/QUOTE]

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