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<blockquote data-quote="Harlekin" data-source="post: 4745547" data-attributes="member: 18615">How about the following alternative reading: Piracy is bad for the Hobby as a whole. Most RPG companies have thin profit margins and cannot afford to lose even 5% of sales. Hence going against pirates is in the interest of the industry.&nbsp; According to&nbsp; jasonbostwick (contested) Paizo managed to reduce piracy by increasing their security and freezing out known pirates. However, Paizo cannot afford to do anything more against the pirates, all they manage to do is plug a hole.Wizards&nbsp; can do more, they can actually send a message to pirates by going after some of them. Of course this will not end piracy, but it may make some people think twice before uploading material of any RPG company, as they now know they they may get into trouble for this. This will reduce the supply of pirated material. Remember that the most commonly used security measurement (Watermarking) only works with the implicit threat that you get into trouble if your mark is found on pirated material. Again, for this threat to work, someone has to be willing to actually sue for damages.&nbsp; So you could argue that wizards is acting exactly like a leader should, doing what the smaller players in the market place cannot do.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Harlekin, post: 4745547, member: 18615"] How about the following alternative reading: Piracy is bad for the Hobby as a whole. Most RPG companies have thin profit margins and cannot afford to lose even 5% of sales. Hence going against pirates is in the interest of the industry. According to jasonbostwick (contested) Paizo managed to reduce piracy by increasing their security and freezing out known pirates. However, Paizo cannot afford to do anything more against the pirates, all they manage to do is plug a hole. Wizards can do more, they can actually send a message to pirates by going after some of them. Of course this will not end piracy, but it may make some people think twice before uploading material of any RPG company, as they now know they they may get into trouble for this. This will reduce the supply of pirated material. Remember that the most commonly used security measurement (Watermarking) only works with the implicit threat that you get into trouble if your mark is found on pirated material. Again, for this threat to work, someone has to be willing to actually sue for damages. So you could argue that wizards is acting exactly like a leader should, doing what the smaller players in the market place cannot do. [/QUOTE]

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