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<blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 1536118" data-attributes="member: 6390"><p>Some time ago, after the release of Crimson Contracts, I came up with a little idea after seeing copies of my book on KaZaA and Gnutella.</p><p></p><p>I took Adobe, took a select few pages of CC:AM, messed with the settings for awhile, put an advertisement in the back, and tagged in a lovely little piece of coding (formerly from a virus) that hit a counter on an HTML page I put up specifically for this whenever the PDF was opened.</p><p></p><p>I then made sure that the PDF size was correct when compared to the actual version, and dropped it into the various filesharing areas, just to see how many "unique IP hits" and "repeat IP hits" that the page recieved.</p><p></p><p>I also let the other PDF publishers I knew in on this idea, but it generated lukewarm response.</p><p></p><p>So, I did it with any PDF I could lay my hands on that was already on the file-sharing groups.</p><p>Roughly, each book (which had 3-6 pages of OGC in it) generated over 1900 unique IP's that also in the repeat IP hits.</p><p>Each book generated roughly 3000 unique IP hits.</p><p></p><p>You decide if it's hurting anyone, while I try to figure out how to pay the damn electric bill.</p><p></p><p>While my experiment was somewhat unethical, splicing a section of virus code into a PDF (a virus specifically designed to target PDF documents in order to do a DOS attack on Adobe, redesigned to only send a SINGLE ping to the web-page when opened) and then dumping these fake PDF's onto the filesharing systems, but, my questions were answered.</p><p></p><p>A PDF supplement <em><strong>IS</strong></em> pirated, often quite a bit. Ask Chris Johansen, of TRS, just how many hits he has seen from someone trying to use a hack of his software, and how much money each day he loses.</p><p></p><p>It hurts small-time publishers, and can hurt them bad. All moral flag waving aside, and all excuses aside...</p><p></p><p>Every time you pirate a 3rd party PDF product, you are STEALING money from them.</p><p></p><p>In my case, you're walking up and taking one of my kids dinner.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ralts Bloodthorne, post: 1536118, member: 6390"] Some time ago, after the release of Crimson Contracts, I came up with a little idea after seeing copies of my book on KaZaA and Gnutella. I took Adobe, took a select few pages of CC:AM, messed with the settings for awhile, put an advertisement in the back, and tagged in a lovely little piece of coding (formerly from a virus) that hit a counter on an HTML page I put up specifically for this whenever the PDF was opened. I then made sure that the PDF size was correct when compared to the actual version, and dropped it into the various filesharing areas, just to see how many "unique IP hits" and "repeat IP hits" that the page recieved. I also let the other PDF publishers I knew in on this idea, but it generated lukewarm response. So, I did it with any PDF I could lay my hands on that was already on the file-sharing groups. Roughly, each book (which had 3-6 pages of OGC in it) generated over 1900 unique IP's that also in the repeat IP hits. Each book generated roughly 3000 unique IP hits. You decide if it's hurting anyone, while I try to figure out how to pay the damn electric bill. While my experiment was somewhat unethical, splicing a section of virus code into a PDF (a virus specifically designed to target PDF documents in order to do a DOS attack on Adobe, redesigned to only send a SINGLE ping to the web-page when opened) and then dumping these fake PDF's onto the filesharing systems, but, my questions were answered. A PDF supplement [i][b]IS[/b][/i] pirated, often quite a bit. Ask Chris Johansen, of TRS, just how many hits he has seen from someone trying to use a hack of his software, and how much money each day he loses. It hurts small-time publishers, and can hurt them bad. All moral flag waving aside, and all excuses aside... Every time you pirate a 3rd party PDF product, you are STEALING money from them. In my case, you're walking up and taking one of my kids dinner. [/QUOTE]
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