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<blockquote data-quote="Rasyr" data-source="post: 1598150" data-attributes="member: 2855">Only as a last resort. As a company we want to protect our copyrights, however we also do not want to impinge upon your rights as a consumer with the copy you purchase from us.DRM is useless, and is a nuisance to folks who purchase pdfs. Watermarking would be just as easy to remove most likely, however its purpose is to deter not those who are determined pirates, but those who are casual pirates. A casual piriate is one shares something because it is fun to do so, and may or may not realize that they have done wrong. The first step if a watermarked file is found would be to contact the person whose name is on it and find out how it got there. Then we would take steps to get it removed. However, we do realize that the person whose name is on it may not be the one who put it up. He may have shared it with his local game group and one of them may have done it.While we would personally prefer that everybody purchased their own copy of the pdfs, we do expect that some folks will share them with their local gaming group. It is mass distribution and file-sharing that are the problem that have to be dealt with.Yair, we are not the RIAA. We are not out to sue little kids or take the life savings of college students. We just want to protect our copyrights, and we want to be able to do it in as unintrusive manner as possible.Please note that while we do want to protect our copyrights and are planning to watermark products in the future, that even though we do not have this ready yet, we are still selling PDFs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rasyr, post: 1598150, member: 2855"] Only as a last resort. As a company we want to protect our copyrights, however we also do not want to impinge upon your rights as a consumer with the copy you purchase from us. DRM is useless, and is a nuisance to folks who purchase pdfs. Watermarking would be just as easy to remove most likely, however its purpose is to deter not those who are determined pirates, but those who are casual pirates. A casual piriate is one shares something because it is fun to do so, and may or may not realize that they have done wrong. The first step if a watermarked file is found would be to contact the person whose name is on it and find out how it got there. Then we would take steps to get it removed. However, we do realize that the person whose name is on it may not be the one who put it up. He may have shared it with his local game group and one of them may have done it. While we would personally prefer that everybody purchased their own copy of the pdfs, we do expect that some folks will share them with their local gaming group. It is mass distribution and file-sharing that are the problem that have to be dealt with. Yair, we are not the RIAA. We are not out to sue little kids or take the life savings of college students. We just want to protect our copyrights, and we want to be able to do it in as unintrusive manner as possible. Please note that while we do want to protect our copyrights and are planning to watermark products in the future, that even though we do not have this ready yet, we are still selling PDFs. [/QUOTE]

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