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Originally Posted by avantman42
I have some PDFs that do something similar. Some of the PDFs I've bought from Drive Thru RPG have my name and order number on the bottom of every page.
I've seen it referred to as "social DRM".... |
I've gotten those from DTRPG (and the related sites), and sometimes I leave them like that, and sometimes I unlock them & strip out those parts, in order to crop the pages down to better read in my PRS-505.
I'd love for more publishing companies to look at the DriveThru business model. Even though they're all PDFs (ugh), they seem to be doing well. And it's possible they're not freaking out about having the DRM that prevents casual sharing because games & comic books were often prone to "one person in a group buys; everyone else borrows that copy." Their sales plans always included a lot of sharing and encouragement to buy the next issue/module/supplement, rather than strictly controlling the use of the already-bought copies.