LordEntrails
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Controlled distribution is not my preferred solution. A moral and ethical society is. But that's not something that can be regulated, it can only be educated.I'll ask you a related question: in today's world where you can do all those things, how do you "control distribution" if that's your preferred solution?
*lol* you're funny. What possible solution is there that provides a superior experience that will not quickly be circumvented?So....to get back to your question....the way you "provide sufficient incentive" is by providing an experience superior to what customers can get by downloading illicit copies.* In other words, leverage the power of technology to do something more powerful than a PDF.
DRM? Yea, that doesn't work, that will soon be broken, just like trying to enforce copyright actions. You think people aren't already illegally distributing DDB content? They are. They are also circumventing the restrictions placed on resources like Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds.
LOL, I'm neither angry nor seething. But thanks for worrying about my stress level. Or were you implying I'm rabid like you said earlier in the thread? And therefore trying to imply my views are somehow less valuable than your own?Or not. You are also free to seethe angrily. It won't change anything.
This always cracks me up. So the folks who have put in all the effort to create the DDB site and have to spend all the time to convert the content from a print version to a DDB format shouldn't get paid for their work? (I have done conversions from PDF to FG, it's not clean and simple, it can take hundreds of hours to add that superior experience you say is the solution.) Or perhaps WotC should pay them? Even though they are a different companies? And then to pay them a fair wage you would have to raise the price of every hardcopy book ever sold? So even though you don't use DDB you would have to pay for it?*D&DBeyond could have been that experience, except that people who already bought the books are being asked to buy them again.
So, how do you think the cost and work involved in making D&D content available for DDB be paid for? Or should it be free like the grimoire because you already bought the printed book? And all those people should work for free and all the servers paid for by the big evil companies that are profiteering off of copyright laws?