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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rogueattorney" data-source="post: 4784083" data-attributes="member: 17551">Re: itunes.  My impression was that itunes wasn't pirated much because it's just plain easier to simply download it from itunes for $0.99 per song (often less if you d/l full albums at a time).  It's just easier for me to download the new High On Fire song legally than for me to pirate it.  But for bands not offering their music on itunes, AC/DC, for example... you go out and buy the album in the store, or you pirate it.  Old D&D products are now like AC/DC's music... if used record stores were the only place you could find AC/DC albums, that is.  The difference is, of course that I can get pretty much any AC/DC album I'd ever want from Wal Mart for $9.99.  The same can't be said of OOP D&D.That's the secret of beating piracy.  Get a distribution system that's easy to use (that was one of napster's early successes - it was a lot easier to use than "legitamate" distribution points), get a product that people want to pay for, and get a price that people will pay for it.Wizards could offer up all of these things...A nicely indexed interface, where finding exactly what you want is easy.Scrubbed up, complete, OCR'ed .pdf's (or equivalent alternative format).Priced to sell.I'm just not going to hold my breath on any of it.  I think the OOP downloads are gone for good.Long live the OGL.</blockquote>