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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheYeti1775" data-source="post: 5168043" data-attributes="member: 20914">They'be tried that route before.  It failed horribly.  Best it got them were some publicity cases to use as an excuse to pull legal sales.Arg it's a Pirate's Life matey. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Personally I think it was on both accounts.  From the outset 4E was being stalked by the pirates.  Think about it, the core 4E books were pirated before they were even released.And a torrent learner curve is like a meadow's hill.  You can easily see the other side of it.EEEECCCKKKK!  I would rather provide you the PDF's on a nice DVD rom and just simply put all the books in the back of my car.  If it's a hefty list of them, I would be willing to make the 10hr drive from my house to Illinois. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I wouldn't call it pro-piracy, I would call it more like pro-I-don't-give-a-crap.  Most of the pro-piracy statements above are those of fustration and from folks that would actually paid money for the pdf's vice those of us that simply pirate to pirate.I actually think that is a pretty good idea in a way.  It would bring many of your older edition players into your DDI fold generating a constant revenue for WotC.  Really would it effect them that much for treating each book as it's own section of an archive?Don't like it being online only though.  That was one of the biggiest arguements during the first days of the DDI announcements on weather customers would be able to keep what they paid for or if they were trapped into always being online with an active subscription.It boogled a lot of minds.  Because the legal PDF sales brought a lot of pirates back into the 'legal' fold.  Now essentially they have been told we don't want your money.  So what did they do, they simply went back to the Pirate Ship BitTorrent and sailed on their merry way.Even the pulling of the PDF's didn't stop the pirates as the very next book out was found days after on the torrents and dang near professional scans and bookmarked copies a week after.Good thing we are a Consititutional Republic and not a Democracy.  Most schools forget to teach this nowadays.Honestly if they came out with a non-Adobe reader with a DRM, the nerdrage alone would dictate someone hacking it by the end of a month.But back to the OP:I'm glad to see some digital works are being released.</blockquote>

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