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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 3294934" data-attributes="member: 9053">...that is for some definition of most. All I can tell you is that I won't buy them, and I'm not the only one. There's not a single PDF that I've ever purchased that I couldn't have lived without. I purchased them because I was interested in the material, they were reasonably priced, and because I wanted to support the company.I hold my stand on not buying DRMed products, any DRMed products, very seriously. I don't buy them, and I also will speak out about it when asked. And I'm not the only one. The thing is, I believe that in the long term, any kind of DRM is bad business for the PDF gaming producers, because there are many people out there who will go and get the products illegally rather than use DRM. I am not one of those people, mind you, but they do exist.I would never say that: I like the vast majority of the publishers who post to ENWorld, because they are giving me something quite valuable when they appear here to talk about their product and answer questions about it. I remember a recent thread about martial arts in D20 Modern where several publishers gave their writeups for martial arts styles right in the thread. How can you beat that?For me, you can get rid of that good will by using DRM in your products. I don't know if this is going to come through in this e-mail, but I think that kind of service is simply amazing, so it should give some kind of indication of how seriously I take my stand on DRM if I won't buy a product from someone like that who uses it. You (and other publishers) might think that's nuts, but that's my opinion. And I'm not the only one.I'm quite aware of that practice. I would love to get into what I think about the big box stores, but I think Eric's grandmother wouldn't like it very much.I hope that everyone who reads my posts realizes that I'm not intending this to be personal. If you're posting your thoughts on this you're one of the good guys in this industry. Still, I hope you can also see that those of us who take this seriously enough to talk about it aren't your enemies either: the people who are hurting your business aren't posting in threads like these because they're just taking what they want and not caring about it.--Steve</blockquote>

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