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Originally Posted by sabredog
I would like to add though, that the publishers, music and entertainment industry need to be proactive at change as well. However the only proactivity they have been involved in is increased litigation and publication of extemely biased statistics and reports.
Works both ways and currently the cave dwellers are not coming out to even attempt to resolve the issues presented to them in a digital age, even nearly twenty years on.
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Unfortunately, we're going to have to wait a long while longer for all the Neanderthals and Austrelopithicines (sp?) to filter out of the system.
Case in point, Wizards of the Coast and their canning all the legitimate sources of watermarked PDFs on the grounds that PDF piracy was cutting into their sales to much. Legitimate RPG e-book websites like DriveThruRPG are still doing a booming ebook business, even if their stuff is a bit hefty to load into my Story HD's main memory. WotC, on the other hand is plagued by managers and executives who only seem to understand Magic: the Gathering and not role- players or miniatures gamers.
It also hasn't done a thing to stop people from cutting the binding out of their books, scanning them, and posting the scans on various internet sources, which is where most of the pirated ebooks were all coming from anyway. Ending the distribution of legitimate PDFs of their books has only reduced WotC's revenue stream and shot them in the digital foot.