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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 1540697" data-attributes="member: 6390">I'd like to point something out here...All of the moralistic points of view, and arguing, still ignored one fact, even to the point of suggesting that I was borderline retarded and thought I could be the next Gygax...THREE THOUSAND DOWNLOADS!TWELVE HUNDRED OF THEM OPEN THE DOCUMENT MORE THAN FIVE TIMES!ONE THOUSAND OPENED IT FOR AT LEAST 6 MONTHS, AT LEAST TWICE A MONTH!SEVEN HUNDRED OPENED IT AT LEAST TWICE A WEEK FOR OVER SIX MONTHS!That means, that each of the companies, each of the authors, lost $700 because of the few "preview" pages of the document that was attatched to the several pages of advertisements.Tell me now that money wasn't stolen from the authors and publishers.Justify that.I'll be around, I'm currently working on another PDF product for people to rip off and justify with "Stickin' it to the man!" or the ever popular "RPG Products by 3rd party people should be free, man!"Yeah, this is irritating to me. Those are the numbers, and that probably didn't even TOUCH those that pass them around through the "Six degrees of seperation" theory, the guys who deleted it because of the ads, and wanted the whole book.And to answer the question: No, I didn't plan on being the next Gary Gygax. Yes, my family does have another source of income.Could I have used the $1200?Yup. That's basically a months pay in my household. So I basically had a month's pay stolen from my household.How would you feel if I walked up to you on Payday, stuck a pistol in your face, took the money out of your wallet, and walked off? All you lost was the money, I even let you keep the wallet. And it's not like you had it.Did you expect to get paid for your work?</blockquote>

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