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Message: <blockquote data-quote="trancejeremy" data-source="post: 1534490" data-attributes="member: 924">I think RPG piracy is perhaps closer to DVD piracy than music piracy.I mean, it's relatively easy and cheap to download a song and burn it to a cd. The end result is exactly like a store bought cd in functionality, and many cd players nowdays support mp3s directly, you can just burn the mp3s to a cd. There is some quality loss, but almost no one can tell the difference. Conversely, music cds are fairly cheap, usually $10-15, or $1 a song for a legal downloadRPG piracy, on the other hand, it's hard to use a PDF. They're not easy to read from a screen. And if you print them out, it could conceivably cost you more than buying it used on ebay (if it costs 5 cents a page, a 200 page book would cost $10 to print out, which is more than a used copy in some cases), and you'd have a lousier looking product. OTOH, new prices are fairly high, $40-50 in some cases, so there is probably a large temptation. And some people have strange eyes, and have no problems reading a PDF. That's for pen & paper books, anywayI do think file sharing hurts PDF sellers. I mean, if you get the exactly same PDF for free that it would cost you $5-10 to buy, then most people will take the free one, and punch their conscience in the gut.And I think Michael Jackson actually needs money, being in debt. Apparently his only real source of income is from Beatles songs he owns the rights to. That's a lot of income a year, but apparently it costs a lot to run Neverland...</blockquote>

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