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Message: <blockquote data-quote="renau1g" data-source="post: 5376714" data-attributes="member: 54810">It can't be proven to be lost revenue. If Pirate Jerk A goes to Torrent site X and grabs the CB someone at WotC may say "oh man we lost revenue" and add that to help their business case. Now, you have to dig deeper (and it's likely impossible) into whether Pirate Jerk A would actually have purchased the tool if it wasn't available for free. If he would, then yes it's lost revenue, if he wouldn't, then no it's not lost revenue. Same for the PDF's of their books. I'm sure a bunch of people who grab them from pirate sites are those who want digital offerings of the books they've purchased for utility reasons. I know of a few who want PDF and would pay for them, even owning the books, but have to resort to torrents...I'm not saying that the there isn't lost revenue going on, but it's far more difficult to quantify and could be extremely small. Who knows? We'll see when the CB goes online only and if in 6 months (once all those who quit over the online only + all the new subs who previously grabbed it for free come onboard) the subscribers have gone up then they have a win, if not, well then they just may have wasted 6 months development resources.</blockquote>