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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 8886170" data-attributes="member: 20741"><p>Well, I don't know how true that is. If it's easy to pirate, people will pirate. Just ask anyone in the music industry about the impact of MP3's.</p><p></p><p>Or anyone in the gaming biz about pirated PDFs, for that matter. I am sure more are pirated than are purchased off of Paizo, Drive Thru or perhaps DMsGuild.</p><p></p><p>That said, when it comes to that material that represents a true lost sale? I am less persuaded the numbers are as bad as all of that. My guess is that the vast majority of ENWorld users have pirated scanned PDFs of many of WotC's 5e books (if for no other reason that being able to search the OCR text for a word). However, my guess is ALSO that those same people have hardback physical copies and/or DDB versions of them, too.</p><p></p><p>Is there really lost revenue there? <em>Some</em>, sure -- but I doubt the problem is anywhere near as large as it would appear at first blush for either Paizo or WotC products.</p><p></p><p>All of that said, if an electronic product provides a value, and the value-in-use of that digital product requires that it be from a legitimate source, then people who were going to buy it are overwhelmingly likely to buy it.</p><p></p><p>In 2023, that will have to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 8886170, member: 20741"] Well, I don't know how true that is. If it's easy to pirate, people will pirate. Just ask anyone in the music industry about the impact of MP3's. Or anyone in the gaming biz about pirated PDFs, for that matter. I am sure more are pirated than are purchased off of Paizo, Drive Thru or perhaps DMsGuild. That said, when it comes to that material that represents a true lost sale? I am less persuaded the numbers are as bad as all of that. My guess is that the vast majority of ENWorld users have pirated scanned PDFs of many of WotC's 5e books (if for no other reason that being able to search the OCR text for a word). However, my guess is ALSO that those same people have hardback physical copies and/or DDB versions of them, too. Is there really lost revenue there? [I]Some[/I], sure -- but I doubt the problem is anywhere near as large as it would appear at first blush for either Paizo or WotC products. All of that said, if an electronic product provides a value, and the value-in-use of that digital product requires that it be from a legitimate source, then people who were going to buy it are overwhelmingly likely to buy it. In 2023, that will have to do. [/QUOTE]
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