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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 5376739" data-attributes="member: 71571">Wrong.It takes one person who says 'I'd rather download than buy the book' to prove the case of lost revenue.  This is the elephant in the room, is the existance of this one guy.  For all the talk of 'benefits of piracy', this one guy is the guy you have to acknowledge, cause he's the guy who is the center of the argument, and that pro-piracy advocates choose to completely gloss over.This person does exist.  He probably exists in your gaming group.  He's probably the guy extremely vocal that Character Builder is going online because he can no longer download updates for it from thepiratebay.org.  He's probably the guy on this forum who advocates buying one month of insider, then downloading everything, and then cancelling the subscription for a few months.  He's probably the guy who advocates downloading PDFs for 'evaluation purposes' and is sitting on one of the leak copies of the PHB, running games of fourth edition, but strangely has decided the book is not worth his purchase.This guy probably even posts in this thread.  You probably even have a few ideas who this guy is. One does not need to quantify it to prove it exists.Actually:  If the revenue from it goes up (not number of subscribers), while the costs go down (including costs to update, bandwidth and the cost of maintaining the copyrights from downloaded copies), then it is a win.  If the subscriptions go down, but you have to pay less money to keep it going, you still may make more profit from it, and therefore win.Number of subscribers mean nothing when 'subscribe one month, then quit' is one of the problems the new model is meant to curtail.</blockquote>

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