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Arcane Power: How long before the pirated copy appears
- Thread starter Remathilis
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Alright, someone has to say it. *chuckle*
Maybe it's not (widely) being pirated because there isn't much demand for it.
Well, demand is the primary force behind supply... No arguing with logic.
Obryn
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Something makes me doubt that WotC is looking at how quickly a book gets pirated as a sign of the book's success. They have ... you know, actual sales figures and whatnot. 
I thought there'd be a backlash from pulling the legal PDFs, resulting in a quick publish-to-pirate transition... I think instead that the people inclined to pirate 4e material may have been spoiled by the relative ease of pirating 4e to-date.
Joking or not, ENWorld seems to interpret everything as a sign that 4e is failing. It's confirmation bias, now in convenient internet form!
-O
I thought there'd be a backlash from pulling the legal PDFs, resulting in a quick publish-to-pirate transition... I think instead that the people inclined to pirate 4e material may have been spoiled by the relative ease of pirating 4e to-date.
Joking or not, ENWorld seems to interpret everything as a sign that 4e is failing.
It's confirmation bias, now in convenient internet form!-O
ender_wiggin
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Someone is currently scanning on a public forum, and a pirated preview of the bard chapter is now available. Unless something goes unnaturally awry, a copy of the book will hit the torrents by tonight.
So I suppose the answer to the question is 3 days.
I believe that WOTC benefited quite a bit from this 3-day lag. Legendary Pictures (and the company that owns it -- WB, I think) put up a massive effort to prevent The Dark Knight from being pirated pre-release. They were able to delay the pirated copy for 24 hours, and they considered it a monumental success, so I feel that WOTC should celebrate.
In the long-term though, I agree with many of you in thinking that complete denial of legit pdfs is probably a mistake, in that it alienates core members of the fanbase.
So I suppose the answer to the question is 3 days.
I believe that WOTC benefited quite a bit from this 3-day lag. Legendary Pictures (and the company that owns it -- WB, I think) put up a massive effort to prevent The Dark Knight from being pirated pre-release. They were able to delay the pirated copy for 24 hours, and they considered it a monumental success, so I feel that WOTC should celebrate.
In the long-term though, I agree with many of you in thinking that complete denial of legit pdfs is probably a mistake, in that it alienates core members of the fanbase.
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Obryn
Hero
Just a few posts back, weren't you saying (1) I know secret dark corners of the internets which you plebians don't; (2) they all had Arcane Power online before it was, like, written; and (3) it's been uploaded everywhere, but only where the elect few marketing executives/Navy SEALS/black belts/hax0rs can get it, and this fact is important?
-O
KlausThePrince
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QFT. It seems that a lot of trolls like to say "I found it in 10 minutes" just to make people angry.
Bleoberis De Ganis
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Perhaps they shouldn't have pulled the pdfs completely. Perhaps they should delay their sale for a number of days because:
1. The pirates will have flooded the torrents with sub-standard scanned pdfs anyway by then.
2. To give hard copy sellers a chance to sell to those who want a copy a soon as possible.
1. The pirates will have flooded the torrents with sub-standard scanned pdfs anyway by then.
2. To give hard copy sellers a chance to sell to those who want a copy a soon as possible.
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