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<blockquote data-quote="Aberzanzorax" data-source="post: 4779914" data-attributes="member: 64209"><p>Sorry bout that Mistwell, you're mostly right here (and I'm mostly wrong).</p><p> </p><p>I was going from memory, which was more or less that "they were thinking about eventually looking into maybe providing materials in digital form." I think my memory has been somewhat "retrained" by what I've read on various forums and blogs.</p><p> </p><p>What he actually said was:</p><p><em>We understand that our actions will not eliminate piracy all together, but we don’t want to make it easy, either. In order to better support and grow our hobby industry, we need a strong retail base. We understand that our fans have a use for PDFs, and <strong>we are actively exploring other options for digital distribution</strong>. In the mean time, we needed to protect the hobby industry.</em></p><p> </p><p>When I originally read this, I interpreted this as "yeah right, that's corporate speak for: now that we've taken away the PDFs we'll eventually get around to figuring out a solution...or not...but we'll be 'actively exploring.'"</p><p> </p><p>In essence, you are absolutely right that my interpretation was skewed. It was deeply colored by my mistrust of them.</p><p> </p><p>HOWEVER, note that they carefully didn't state here (or anywhere else that I'm aware of) that they have specific plans to actually release the info in digital content. They have plans to "actively explore options" but not any plans/assurances/etc. that they'll be releasing it, and certainly, given that they haven't even commited to doing it, they haven't committed to any kind of time frame.</p><p> </p><p>So, when I think on it more, you're 100% right. I said what I meant wrong. What I should have said was "well they've promised to look into it, but I haven't heard any actual statement that they'll actually DO it."</p><p> </p><p>To me, it's like when a parent says "I'll think about it." It's really no more answer to the question than "I'm buying time" as opposed to a "yes" or "no".</p><p> </p><p>(Though...and I'm not being snarky here, as I could genuinely have missed it...do you have any instances of them saying that they would do it or commiting to it in some way?)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aberzanzorax, post: 4779914, member: 64209"] Sorry bout that Mistwell, you're mostly right here (and I'm mostly wrong). I was going from memory, which was more or less that "they were thinking about eventually looking into maybe providing materials in digital form." I think my memory has been somewhat "retrained" by what I've read on various forums and blogs. What he actually said was: [I]We understand that our actions will not eliminate piracy all together, but we don’t want to make it easy, either. In order to better support and grow our hobby industry, we need a strong retail base. We understand that our fans have a use for PDFs, and [B]we are actively exploring other options for digital distribution[/B]. In the mean time, we needed to protect the hobby industry.[/I] When I originally read this, I interpreted this as "yeah right, that's corporate speak for: now that we've taken away the PDFs we'll eventually get around to figuring out a solution...or not...but we'll be 'actively exploring.'" In essence, you are absolutely right that my interpretation was skewed. It was deeply colored by my mistrust of them. HOWEVER, note that they carefully didn't state here (or anywhere else that I'm aware of) that they have specific plans to actually release the info in digital content. They have plans to "actively explore options" but not any plans/assurances/etc. that they'll be releasing it, and certainly, given that they haven't even commited to doing it, they haven't committed to any kind of time frame. So, when I think on it more, you're 100% right. I said what I meant wrong. What I should have said was "well they've promised to look into it, but I haven't heard any actual statement that they'll actually DO it." To me, it's like when a parent says "I'll think about it." It's really no more answer to the question than "I'm buying time" as opposed to a "yes" or "no". (Though...and I'm not being snarky here, as I could genuinely have missed it...do you have any instances of them saying that they would do it or commiting to it in some way?) [/QUOTE]
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