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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 6018130" data-attributes="member: 21076">GX.Sigma already addressed this point, but as long as a company focuses more on inhibiting there are going to be issues. Toss a watermark on there and you are done. You've inhibited the casual file sharer and remained non-obtrusive and out of your customer's way. Paizo seems to have had great success with this. Rulebooks in PDF format? $10 a pop. People will pay that just to preview the material. Are Paizo books out there on pirate sites? Yep. But Paizo still have people buying PDFs and they have a lot of community support.Or spend more time and resources creating a quality product and less money into encryption systems that pirates are going to crack in very little time. Even the big name devices from Amazon and Apple get rooted in very little time. Both of those companies have many, many more resources to throw at securing their devices, yet people find a way around it.RPG companies don't have the resources to effectively combat piracy. Watermark the PDF, call it a done deal and focus on making that quality product. Other folks are out there making money this way.Except this platform needs built and tested. If you rely on PDFs you don't have to be one that builds and designs - Adobe incurs those costs. You just produce in a format that can be read and let someone else eat those costs. Subscriptions minimize this of course. Get the email your PDF is available, hit the My Downloads link and all your PDFs are right there. But yeah, at some point you have to go to the source site to get the material. A good site makes that easy, but not a major issue.Between having current errata and forcing significant lag time between legitimate product release and illegally cracked software release you'd could make the impact you wanted to. The other nice feature is that as Errata releases come out the app knows the right one to fetch immediately - no waiting for a crack and then wading through torrents clogged up with obsolete versions, low-quality versions, corrupted files, and malware.- Marty Lund</blockquote>[/QUOTE]

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