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<blockquote data-quote="Estlor" data-source="post: 4743561" data-attributes="member: 7261"><p>Here's my suggestion to WotC, even though I know they're probably not monitoring these threads anymore after 19 pages of vitriol in another post.</p><p></p><p>Develop or license a Flash applet that displays PDF content without the option to save. Then, wherever the applet and the PDFs live on your server, write CGI or PHP code that requires a referral from the page hosting the applet to serve the content. Call it the "Wizards' Library." Boom - you get a bookshelf-like menu interface that lets you choose any book from the history of WotC and TSR and view it right there. Then raise the price of DDI by a little bit, say, $5, to help cover the extra bandwith the Wizards' Library will be using.</p><p></p><p>At this point, advertise the heck out of the fact that your monthly DDI subscription not only gives you access to the 4e rule compendium and character builder, but digital copies of <em>every book ever released for D&D</em> for perusal when online. Sit back and watch as everybody subscribes.</p><p></p><p>Now, you'll probably still get people who will go through the extra steps to hack the system and get at PDFs for the new books, but the goal is not to try and prevent piracy by making it impossible to pirate things. Rather, you attempt to make it so that anyone who would be inclined to spend money on your products will choose to do so rather than go through the hassle of pirating the books. </p><p></p><p>In other words, given the option to get everything for a small monthly fee, who wouldn't jump at that? And WotC continues to control the distribution as the files are managed server-side instead of client-side where you lose all control.</p><p></p><p>Really, it seems win-win to me. And such an applet exists (allbeit in a form that allows saving) at Scribd. I mean, really, its so obvious you'd have thought they'd gone to it already. Plus it incentivises people who <em>don't even play 4e</em> to become DDI subscribers, if only for Wizards' Library!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Estlor, post: 4743561, member: 7261"] Here's my suggestion to WotC, even though I know they're probably not monitoring these threads anymore after 19 pages of vitriol in another post. Develop or license a Flash applet that displays PDF content without the option to save. Then, wherever the applet and the PDFs live on your server, write CGI or PHP code that requires a referral from the page hosting the applet to serve the content. Call it the "Wizards' Library." Boom - you get a bookshelf-like menu interface that lets you choose any book from the history of WotC and TSR and view it right there. Then raise the price of DDI by a little bit, say, $5, to help cover the extra bandwith the Wizards' Library will be using. At this point, advertise the heck out of the fact that your monthly DDI subscription not only gives you access to the 4e rule compendium and character builder, but digital copies of [I]every book ever released for D&D[/I] for perusal when online. Sit back and watch as everybody subscribes. Now, you'll probably still get people who will go through the extra steps to hack the system and get at PDFs for the new books, but the goal is not to try and prevent piracy by making it impossible to pirate things. Rather, you attempt to make it so that anyone who would be inclined to spend money on your products will choose to do so rather than go through the hassle of pirating the books. In other words, given the option to get everything for a small monthly fee, who wouldn't jump at that? And WotC continues to control the distribution as the files are managed server-side instead of client-side where you lose all control. Really, it seems win-win to me. And such an applet exists (allbeit in a form that allows saving) at Scribd. I mean, really, its so obvious you'd have thought they'd gone to it already. Plus it incentivises people who [I]don't even play 4e[/I] to become DDI subscribers, if only for Wizards' Library! [/QUOTE]
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