WotC may have sent the Pinkertons to a magic leakers home. Update: WotC confirms it and has a response.

[Mannahnin]

Of course, if what you’re saying is basically that mr Cannon was going to take advantage of a leaked product in its YouTube channel, and that’s not perfectly moral, sure, ok, I see the argument.

He already had taken advantage of and leaked the unreleased product on his channel, to be clear. That's what caused the issue to arise.

 

[Olrox17]

I'm not making a moral argument at all. I was responding to a comment that "he has done literally nothing wrong", but in the eyes of the law he has (probably).

I can see the moral argument (to a degree), much less the legal one. While there’s a non zero chance that he’d lose in court, IMO he’d have the upper hand…

And, yes, there may only have been a very small chance of WotC taking it further, and only an even smaller chance of it going horribly wrong for him. But given the worst case outcome, would you really want to take that bet?

As I said up-thread, I'm not defending WotC's actions. But Cannon probably has had the best possible outcome from all of this - it could have been much much worse.

…but yeah, given how courts work in the US, taking a chance against a big corp wouldn’t have been wise, even with 99% chance victory. It just ain’t worth the pain.
Overall I’d say we agree.

 

[Olrox17]

He already had taken advantage of and leaked the unreleased product on his channel, to be clear. That's what caused the issue to arise.

To be fair, I think he’s coming out of this a winner. Never heard of the guy before, now I have. I’m sure he gained subscribers, and apparently WotC is replacing the stuff they raided as an apology for the bad manners, anyway.

 

[darjr]

He already had taken advantage of and leaked the unreleased product on his channel, to be clear. That's what caused the issue to arise.

No it’s not!
The issue arose when the Pinkertons cased the neighborhood and forced entry to their door as a threat to them.

 

[Mannahnin]

To be fair, I think he’s coming out of this a winner. Never heard of the guy before, now I have. I’m sure he gained subscribers, and apparently WotC is replacing the stuff they raided as an apology for the bad manners, anyway.

Yeah, I think they were trying to be nice about it. Which makes the reactions to their use of the Pinkertons ironic and makes the PR situation look even more self-foot-shooty.

 

[darjr]

As others have said if the YouTuber had changed nothing and WotC sent a lawyer and or sued him or just talked to him we’d probably know nothing about this.

 

[Mannahnin]

No it’s not!
The issue arose when the Pinkertons cased the neighborhood and forced entry to their door and threatened them.

We are talking about two different things, it appears, when referring to "the issue".

His choice to leak the unreleased product, which he knew he wasn't supposed to have and which was the entire draw of posting it, led to WotC taking action. Their choice of what action to take made the story much more dramatic, but his actions precipitated the whole thing.

 

[Olrox17]

Yeah, I think they were trying to be nice about it. Which makes the reactions to their use of the Pinkertons ironic and makes the PR situation look even more self-foot-shooty.

I’ve got a feeling that they’re trying to be nice partially because of PR, and partially as a please-don’t-sue-us tactic, but yeah.

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

In principle, morality does not change depending on if you like the entity wronged or not.

Exactly!

 

[Umbran]

His choice to leak the unreleased product, which he knew he wasn't supposed to have and which was the entire draw of posting it, led to WotC taking action. Their choice of what action to take made the story much more dramatic, but his actions precipitated the whole thing.

Yeah. If he held off releasing his videos until the cards were officially released, there'd have been no issue. It was trying to take advantage of the error that precipitated these events.