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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 5207090" data-attributes="member: 71571">Alright, then, so we're in agreement that you cannot stop the piracy.So your choices are:Make PDFs, make piracy easier, and compete with pirates with a product that costs the consumer more than what the pirates offer, as well as compete with your own product.Or, compete with the pirates by offering the convenience of hard cover books, make it harder for them to get the copy up there, and forcing them to use poor quality pdfs that are inconvenient to use and acquire, while focusing on your primary revenue streams.Seriously.   It's really that simple.To think that a corporation acts because of 'anti-piracy' principles rather than the profit motive is absolutely barmy!  It's not even rational!'But they said it's because of pirates!' and it probably was, but as a 'knee-jerk reaction'?  No, there's profit-motive involved there, and probably involved a lot more decision making than 'OH <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> WE FORGOT ABOUT PIRATEBAY.ORG!'Can piracy be stopped?  No.  And NO ONE is arguing that it can.But 'Piracy cannot be stopped' does not logically turn into 'So you should make piracy easier!'  What Wizards IS doing is what -video game- companies are starting to do; make piracy less desirable by putting out products and services piracy can't touch.  You can't pirate a subscription to DDI.  And piracy doesn't make hardcopy well--hard copy IS still very convenient at the -actual- game table.WOTC is competing with the pirates by dealing where you can't download.  And that IS effective.  But to claim that 'you can't stop pirates so gimme pdfs' is to put your head in the sand; exactly what you're accusing Wizards of doing.And they did stop producing the product of PDFs.  Now pirates have to manually scan every last page, ending in poor quality copies that lack most of the convenience of a first-hand pdf.It's a lot more work for no gain.</blockquote>

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