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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Therise" data-source="post: 6073514" data-attributes="member: 6683949">I've been waiting for news of PDFs also.  I purchased quite a lot of PDFs - not just D&D, but all sorts of things - from Paizo and RPGNow.  I still use the ones I've bought, makes things easy for gaming and I don't have to drag heavy real-book libraries around.I don't mind "watermarks" or top/bottom account name-labeling, but any copy-protection beyond that which requires me to jump extra hoops (like a captcha or something) would put me off buying.  It's a game, after all, not military secrets.  Plus, from what I understand, any newly invented copy protection gets broken within days.  Pirates will always find some crazy new way to break things open, since they like the challenge probably even more than they want the "stuff" they're pirating.Personally, I think people define something as "piracy" way too quickly these days.  Back in the day, I'd photocopy blank character sheets and other stuff from AD&D manuals, or paste different maps together, all sorts of things.  Many were intended to be used this way, as part of gaming.  I'd also borrow a book or magazine to preview it before buying - sometimes from a friend, sometimes just looking something over in a store.  Back in the day, I'd also make mix-tapes from songs recorded off the radio, and I'd often VCR some of my favorite weekly shows.  But cassettes and VCR tapes are now in the dinosaur graveyard... and along with them, my ability to sample things went with it.  So I rarely end up buying DVDs or Blu-Rays of TV shows.  No real way to share things, either, if you have a DVR, unless you've got some fancy tech and skills.How many people who share things are actually "pirating" or stealing?  Very few, I'd imagine.  People always want to peruse things before they buy.  And if they don't buy, you'd never have made money from them anyway.  These days, if I can't sample something first, by borrowing it from a friend or at least flipping through it in a gaming store or library, I probably won't even see it.  Honestly, I wonder when corporations will start going after city libraries, they seem so paranoid about squeezing every penny they can out of people.  I think they're shooting themselves in the feet, really, because research shows that sharing often dramatically increases a fanbase and increases purchases.</blockquote>

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