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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scott_Rouse" data-source="post: 3574443" data-attributes="member: 51773">It's my definition so you don't have to agree with me. Guess it may not be up with the industry Jargon but it is what is is and in this case helps to frame my thoughts on what a DRM (or anti-priracy) solution should try to acheive.I beleive that 99.9% of our customer base is honest. Did they download some Metalica songs off Napster back in the day or once buy a bootleg of the Star Wars Christmas Special at GenCon? Maybe so, but  generally speaking they are honest people who given the choice would rather buy official product from a publisher than get pirated stuff.  When I think about protecting copyright (which is my main consideration when I think about DRM) I keep in mind that when given the opportunity most of our customers willingly give us their money for a product and no matter what I do I can't stop pirates and the people who buy priated copies. But honest people sometime screw up.  Today customer service emailed me a link to web site with dozens of D&D 3.5 and older PDFs on them. I would guess that the person who created this site is a mostly an honest, hard working, calls his mom every Sunday kind of person who thought it would be cool to create an online lending library of all his D&D books? In my opinion he can't do this and our lawyers will send him a note stating that.  I can't say if these are purchased PDFs or scans. Scanning that many books is a lot of work but people do it (based on the fact they are all over share services like bit torrent). If they were purchased PDFs a watermark stating this is Joe Smith's book would likely have been enough of a "wait a minute moment" for this person to think twice about sharing with the rest of the world. I can't stop the scanners or other cheaters who want to "screw WOTC" by dumping files onto a share site so I don't worry about them (until I find them then I sick the lawyers on em). What I want is something that helps prevent the stupid, time wasting piracy, with a reasonable but not onerous solution that keep the honest  people (mostly) honest.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /></blockquote>

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