Ondath
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If the guy indeed possessed the cards unlawfully, perhaps they could have, I don't know, actually requested the cards through legal means?@Henadic Theologian @Alzrius
WotC has a leak, they want to plug it, so please tell me which company you think they should have gone with.
You make it sound like the poor multi-billion dollar company was so desperate that their only choice in avoiding leaking some printed cardboard that they were already going to reveal in two weeks was hiring a literal union-busting group from the 19th century. That's ludicrous.
Leaks happen all the time in entertainment. Series 8 of Doctor Who had the first 5-6 episodes have their scripts leak (and some episodes had their no-effects cuts leak too), but the BBC didn't send a detective agency behind whoever leaked the scripts. Genshin Impact, a gacha game made in China, has leaks from its beta testing constantly, and while people get banned or lose access to future builds because of that stuff, even they don't do something as pointless as what WotC allegedly did. If this is true, this is beyond defensible.