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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 2720100" data-attributes="member: 19675">I'm an entertainment lawyer who gets to see first hand what piracy does to artists and labels, primarily in the music industry.That aside, lets just say I was appalled when I recently met a guy claiming to have over 1,000 illegal RPG PDFs.Assuming he's using 1/10th of that, that's still 100 lost sales to him alone...and that doesn't count whatever he's passed along to others.&nbsp; I'm not into PDFs myself- I like hard copies- so I don't know what they cost- but I'll assume they cost $15/each on average.&nbsp; That comes to $1,500.&nbsp; If he does this long enough, he'll get himself into grand larceny range ($5k).What does $1,500 mean?&nbsp; To his FLGS, the profit from that amount of sales pays an employee's weekly paycheck.&nbsp; The share of that that goes back to the publisher might be a goodly chunk of the company's monthly rent, or pays off an artist for his work on a project.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 2720100, member: 19675"] I'm an entertainment lawyer who gets to see first hand what piracy does to artists and labels, primarily in the music industry. That aside, lets just say I was appalled when I recently met a guy claiming to have over 1,000 illegal RPG PDFs. Assuming he's using 1/10th of that, that's still 100 lost sales to him alone...and that doesn't count whatever he's passed along to others. I'm not into PDFs myself- I like hard copies- so I don't know what they cost- but I'll assume they cost $15/each on average. That comes to $1,500. If he does this long enough, he'll get himself into grand larceny range ($5k). What does $1,500 mean? To his FLGS, the profit from that amount of sales pays an employee's weekly paycheck. The share of that that goes back to the publisher might be a goodly chunk of the company's monthly rent, or pays off an artist for his work on a project. [/QUOTE]

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