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<blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 5381168" data-attributes="member: 66434">I would say this might remain the case for a few weeks at best. Eventually someone will find a way to get full Dark Sun and Essentials material into the old CB. It is amazing to see the effort and work that a determined pirate will undertake just to stick it to the man. &nbsp;When a point is reached that makes a product more frustrating and irratating to legitimate paying end users in the name of combatting piracy then the pirates are the real winners. People who do not want to pay for product will always find a way to steal it. Making the product worse for paying customers will not suddenly force pirates to stop, it will merely urge them to adapt and become even more proficient at what they do. &nbsp;This is the situation I see. In the near future there could quite possibly be a fully hacked functional up to date offline CB that works better than it ever did before. It might be so good that everyone who makes use of a CB will be using it. Honest customers will continue to pay for their DDI sub and still use the pirated CB in lieu of a less functional official one. They will have the best of both worlds. WOTC will be getting paid for the content and the user will have best tool available. Those who want to steal content will continue doing just that. &nbsp;This will create a situation for the subscriber in which the decision to continue paying will be made without regard to CB functionality since it will be available anyway. (Which is precisely the situation the online CB was created to get rid of) The net result is nothing gained. It could be even worse since the old model situation was pay or not pay for the same CB function and the new model could end up as pay or not pay for better CB function.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ExploderWizard, post: 5381168, member: 66434"] I would say this might remain the case for a few weeks at best. Eventually someone will find a way to get full Dark Sun and Essentials material into the old CB. It is amazing to see the effort and work that a determined pirate will undertake just to stick it to the man. When a point is reached that makes a product more frustrating and irratating to legitimate paying end users in the name of combatting piracy then the pirates are the real winners. People who do not want to pay for product will [I]always [/I]find a way to steal it. Making the product [I]worse[/I] for paying customers will not suddenly force pirates to stop, it will merely urge them to adapt and become even more proficient at what they do. This is the situation I see. In the near future there could quite possibly be a fully hacked functional up to date offline CB that works better than it ever did before. It might be so good that [I]everyone [/I]who makes use of a CB will be using it. Honest customers will continue to pay for their DDI sub and still use the pirated CB in lieu of a less functional official one. They will have the best of both worlds. WOTC will be getting paid for the content and the user will have best tool available. Those who want to steal content will continue doing just that. This will create a situation for the subscriber in which the decision to continue paying will be made without regard to CB functionality since it will be available anyway. (Which is precisely the situation the online CB was created to get rid of) The net result is nothing gained. It could be even worse since the old model situation was pay or not pay for the same CB function and the new model could end up as pay or not pay for [I]better [/I]CB function. [/QUOTE]

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