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You are wrong. That's a trademark, not copyright. You can refuse to print a book you have the copyright of for decades, and you'll not lose the copyright.

Again, it's not about sticking it to the man", it's about WotC deliberately telling people who want to buy PDFs that they are not welcome anymore. And many among us prefer PDFs to DTF, some are even, for weight or other reasons, dependent on them. Pardon me for being blunt, but do you honestly...

People are up in arms because this business move (among other things) - Caused some of them to lose products they already paid for - Caused some of them to become unable to buy a product they liked - Was allegedly done to battle piracy, meaning that either they were lied to, or someone (or many...

In my case it does not matter what would be the last straw for me. I do not play 4E, I play 3.5, and WotC decided they won't sell the books I wanted (MIC, Complete Mage among other things) to me anymore. I did not decide anything, it was decided for me.

Since cutting off legal access to PDFs won't diminish piracy at all I think you're wrong, Ryan - unless WotC's decision makers have missed the last 10 years of internet piracy. Given that I do not think WotC's decision makers are that stupid I think this is not piracy-related, but related to...

Getting told "You can't buy the books you wanted anymore" makes me care, of course. I was planning to buy a few more PDFs this week, for about 100 dollars, and WotC decided they did not want my money. And with the reason given for this move not making any sense I am left wondering what were the...

I bought a subscription of Pathfinder.

For the first time a thread was closed after close to 20 pages, which I read in its entirety, and I have no idea what caused the lock since I did not see much of the vitriol the mods mentioned. Then I remembered my ignore list is working.

WotC's legal department is working freelance as Paizo's marketing department.

He gets paid to be that human shield though - it's his job. And rotten tomatoes do not kill anyone when thrown, they're only dangerous when ingested.

What decision? WotC decided for me that they did not want my business anymore. I did not get any say in that, it was their decision.

Yeah. For all those who claim this was done because piracy was hurting their sales: 3E and older material is not sold anymore as books by WotC. They have no sales to be hurt by piracy, other than PDFs - which they just cancelled themselves. It's a stupid move, and it does look like "Buy 4E...

Correct. I was planning to buy a number of 3.5 PDfs in addition to the ones I already own, and now I can't. I am not interested in 4E, so they just lost a customer. I'll spend the money on Pathfinder instead.

Then it's a rather stupid strategy. Instead of getting my money for their older works, they actively drive me to buy Pathfinder books by removing alternatives.

I have a decent backup startegy for PDFs - I copy them on all my computers, meaning two desktops and one laptop. I am still mad at thise boneheaded move by WotC.

Smugness? I don't see smugness, I see incomprehension, and scorn, and anger, all justified by WotC's actions and attitude. The "He did something wrong too, so don't judge me for what I did wrong" defense does not work, even if it applied here (which we do not know yet).

I was about to spend another 100 dollars this week on 3.5E PDFs I missed in the past. I was disappointed at first, but the more I think about it, the less disappointed I am. Obviously, WotC doesn't want my money.

Indeed. Well, WotC lost out on money from me over this, I was about to purchase more books. Their loss.

Excellent post. This is a completely retarded move by WotC, as anyone with a little bit of experience in those matters can attest to.

Shadowrun uses metric as well. In fact, I think the majority of SF RPGs use metric. In our D&D game, we talk about meters and kgs, not pounds and inches.