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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lackhand" data-source="post: 3985099" data-attributes="member: 36160">Your "useless" is the small-press publishers "Aaah, not getting sued" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />But, yeah, that's my take on the issue too.Supposedly the DDI will be good for it; in practice, I'm a hacker on a mac and I *enjoy* having the SRD locally so I can grep through it and patternmatch to my heart's content.The problem is that you can't watermark a .zip of .htmls. They can password protect it, but then someone just explodes it and repackages it without the password. So there's no way to prevent theft.If they go the pdf route, there are linkable, searchable .pdfs, but 1) not flat text (I probably care more about this than most!) 2) not editable/savable/reusable (sad!) and 3) I've never been very impressed with high tech pdfs.If they do anything worse, DRM or anything above password protected or watermarked, I shall be sad. And if they use anything other than pdf, there's a good chance I won't be able to use it at all (which is why I don't think they'll use anything other than pdf <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )</blockquote>

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