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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sigurd" data-source="post: 3279436" data-attributes="member: 19412">Vigilance - Where am I impinging on anyone elses rights? Why are you so negative?Watermark, DMCA your pdfs, make them only purchasable with a pint of blood -- just be clear about the contract you are offering. I would feel badly abused by a company that secretly watermarked PDF's and acted in such bad faith. Given a clear choice I will never buy watermarks for my reasons but also because I respect your decision. I won't defeat or disable your copy protection - I don't want to & its not worth my time.The question was put why someone "won't buy watermarked PDFs". These are my reasons.For the record - I live in a great neighborhood with safe streets. I lock my doors but I would expect people I trust to not let my door deter them if it was an emergency. I'd sacrifice a door for the health of the neighborhood. I still believe that the streets have mostly good people on them 24 hrs a day.I think PDF publishing is like my neighborhood - It mostly works. In a healthy market, good products = sales. Perhaps the market isn't healthy or it needs to be rebuilt. I loved the PDF sale for Enworld - I bought 30+ Pdfs. Since then my pdf purchases have increased greatly - ask my wife <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. I check ENWORLD and Monkey God first. I subscribed to Burning Sky sight unseen.I think the market is maturing and companies need to produce more good material (I know its a challenge) and put some of their stale material on sale (A perception issue). No copy protection scheme is going to make a product last forever - time is enough to make it fail.Sometimes you make more money with lower prices - especially if you have low production\reproduction costs. In the last little while I spent $100+ on pdfs in part because they were cheaper. If every D&D player did that....Sigurd</blockquote>

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