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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 5189550" data-attributes="member: 71571">No, their policy amounts to someone has to take an optical scanner and do the job which makes it the pirate have to work harder to do it, increasing the amount of time between book release and pirate's release by a window of a couple weeks.  During those couple weeks, you don't have the option of 'Buy book' or 'download', you only have 'Buy book.'So, no, it isn't at all like sticking your head in the sand.Contrast with before where the length of time between release and pirated copy distributed was about 5 minutes.The choice was between being the instrument of their own piracy (and then having that product copied in places where the law could not reach, and thus Wizards has no legal recourse against the pirate involved) or not being so, and they made the simple choice not to spend the time and money to enable the piracy.</blockquote>