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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 3843461" data-attributes="member: 1879">You know... I'm not an advocate of piracy but I think your attitude there is poorly thought out. Modern consumers are pretty savvy. We're aware that the people who make the things we like need to eat, and we know our role as consumers is to support people who make things we like. This is why both the Baen books free bar and the many 'pay whatever you want' music downloads are viable forms of enterprise in todays world, not to mention the many webcomics who make a living off of the donations of fans who pay whatever they feel the entertainment they received is worth. So the majority of 'pirates' (IMHO) are downloading a book for one of 4 reasons.1) They like to 'beat the system' or 'stick it to the man'. These are uneducated consumers, or maybe they just have no idea how crappily the RPG industry pays but in any event you're unlikely to see their money, whether or not they download the books.2) They want to examine the material to see if it's worth buying. You'll be getting your money from these people if your product is worth it.3) They bought the book, and want a digital copy to keep on their laptop. And why not? You have their money. 4) They want the book but don't feel it's worth what you charge for it. IOW it's poorly price pointed. But you should still rather they 'pirate' it then not have it at all, because their use of it may drive others in their group to purchase it, or at worst it's driving interest in further products of yours and your core products in exactly the same way that 3rd party products do drive sales of your core books. It's the same principle behind the SRD and OGL in the first place. Heck it's probable that if you put a link on your website that said "Downloaded pirated books? Click here to anonymously pay whatever you think they were worth." you'd see a significant revenue stream from it as people paid the 5 or 10 the think a book was worth rather than the 25-40$ it was retail.</blockquote>

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