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<blockquote data-quote="grickherder" data-source="post: 4678124" data-attributes="member: 68043"><p>The truth of the matter is that civil disobedience is the most effective way to effect change. If people just tried to change laws without breaking them, it's quite possible black people in the US would still have to give up bus seats to white passengers.</p><p></p><p>Now, I'm not equating civil disobedience to effect a change in copyright laws with ones of equality in terms of race-- the racial equality issues have much greater moral weight. But one thing that the rampant piracy of music, movies, books and pretty much everything else has done is shown content providers that the easy distribution of their content for low or no cost can be used to drive sales.</p><p></p><p>I'd say the piracy of the core books for 4th ed were/are an excellent form of unintential marketting that generated more revenue for WotC. WotC sends out cease and desist letters to blatant cases (like the power cards website) but I think those at WotC realize that going after those pirating D&D PDFs will only cost them money and accomplish nothing.</p><p></p><p>The piracy (civil disobeince) of the D&D books has produced positive change-- I can preview material in full before buying it and WotC gets more revenue. Breaking the law produced positive change.</p><p></p><p><em>Pirated, didn't like, didn't buy</em> - no lost revenue, the customer didn't like the product.</p><p></p><p><em>Pirated, liked it, but didn't buy</em> - lost revenue, the customer likes the product but isn't paying for it.</p><p></p><p><em>Pirated it, liked it, went out and bought it</em> - gained revenue, the customer liked it and bought it.</p><p></p><p><em>Bought the book then pirated for pdf copy</em> - gained revenue, the customer already bought the book</p><p></p><p>As long as the aggregate is a revenue increase (ie, #3 being larger than #2) the piracy is having a positive effect on WotC's ability to make money. It's a win-win situation where the customer has greater convenience and the producer is making more money.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="grickherder, post: 4678124, member: 68043"] The truth of the matter is that civil disobedience is the most effective way to effect change. If people just tried to change laws without breaking them, it's quite possible black people in the US would still have to give up bus seats to white passengers. Now, I'm not equating civil disobedience to effect a change in copyright laws with ones of equality in terms of race-- the racial equality issues have much greater moral weight. But one thing that the rampant piracy of music, movies, books and pretty much everything else has done is shown content providers that the easy distribution of their content for low or no cost can be used to drive sales. I'd say the piracy of the core books for 4th ed were/are an excellent form of unintential marketting that generated more revenue for WotC. WotC sends out cease and desist letters to blatant cases (like the power cards website) but I think those at WotC realize that going after those pirating D&D PDFs will only cost them money and accomplish nothing. The piracy (civil disobeince) of the D&D books has produced positive change-- I can preview material in full before buying it and WotC gets more revenue. Breaking the law produced positive change. [I]Pirated, didn't like, didn't buy[/I] - no lost revenue, the customer didn't like the product. [I]Pirated, liked it, but didn't buy[/I] - lost revenue, the customer likes the product but isn't paying for it. [I]Pirated it, liked it, went out and bought it[/I] - gained revenue, the customer liked it and bought it. [I]Bought the book then pirated for pdf copy[/I] - gained revenue, the customer already bought the book As long as the aggregate is a revenue increase (ie, #3 being larger than #2) the piracy is having a positive effect on WotC's ability to make money. It's a win-win situation where the customer has greater convenience and the producer is making more money. [/QUOTE]
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