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HarrierPotter
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 Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:33 pm Post subject: RPGNow and DrivethruRPG merging |
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What the thread title says...
Here's a link to an RPG Net thread
And OneBookShelf is already up.
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Nestor
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| Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 3:25 am Post subject: |
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It's mixed news for me.
The prospect of a one-stop source for games is encouraging. I was never happy with DriveThruRPG's obsession with DRM, though. Or their prices.
At least it seems like the RPGNow material won't be automatically watermarked/DRM'ed.
I guess it's just "wait and see"...
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madwabbit
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| Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:20 am Post subject: |
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| Nestor wrote: | | At least it seems like the RPGNow material won't be automatically watermarked/DRM'ed. |
I loathe and detest DRMs, since I work/play on three different machines, and keeping the DRMs coordinated is a HYOOGE pain-in-the-posterior.
A watermark doesn't bother me so much (as in, my name & copy number barely visible in the header/footer as the DriveThruRPG folks do) since that does offer the authors and game-companies some kind of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection. Sure it can be hacked or stripped out, but I don't object to the IPR holder's insistence on it, because they have a right to some kind of protection.
Given the astounding amount of game PDFs and scanned copies that are routinely file-shared out there, and the glee with which I've heard many gamers in my FLGS chortle about how they've got 99% of a certain Seattle-based RPG mega-company's entire library on illegally downloaded PDFs, a watermark (IMHO) is a small compromise to which I can readily agree. |
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HarrierPotter
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| Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:43 am Post subject: |
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| Nestor wrote: | It's mixed news for me.
The prospect of a one-stop source for games is encouraging. I was never happy with DriveThruRPG's obsession with DRM, though. Or their prices.
At least it seems like the RPGNow material won't be automatically watermarked/DRM'ed.
I guess it's just "wait and see"... |
The DRMs are mostly a thing of the past. I've only gotten watermarked stuff from DriveThru for some time now.
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