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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Burrito Al Pastor" data-source="post: 4675435" data-attributes="member: 27303">So they should have sent a letter threatening a letter threatening a lawsuit?"Cease and desist" is pretty strongly-worded stuff, but it's worth noting that "Please stop doing this, we'd hate to have to resort to legal action" is just as much a C&D as "IF YOU DON'T STOP RIGHT NOW WE'LL SUE YOU SO HARD..."As far as D&D piracy goes, there aren't any numbers on it, because it's almost completely impossible to get any kind of reliable numbers on any kind of piracy, for what I would imagine are obvious reasons. Just about the only reliable numbers I'm aware of are from World of Goo, which had no DRM and an internet high scores database, so the developers could see that the number of people playing the game was ten times the number of people who had bought it.Whatever the piracy rate is of D&D products, it's not likely to be low, because it would be so easy to pirate D&D books, because as appealing as the image is, piracy of D&D isn't going to involve physical books. Scanners mean that books can become data easily, and depending on how PDF watermarks work, it could be even easier than that to get your D&D books into an untraceable data form. Plausible-denial direct-download sites like Rapidshare mean that there's no serious difficulty in distributing said untraceable data.This, I think, is one of the secret goals of the D&D Compendium. I'm not buying Open Grave, but I'm also not pirating it, because as a DDI subscriber I have ready access to all the stuff in it.</blockquote>

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