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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8034413" data-attributes="member: 2209">I was talking about the PDF, not people's private copies they own. WotC used to have their own online shop for old edition D&D PDFs starting around 2000 or so, then they put some up on rpgnow which later merged with drivethru. Once Paizo got going WotC put them up there for sale as well. I bought WotC D&D pdfs from all three. One day in the 4e era after they had put a couple supplemental 4e sourcebooks like Martial Power and Arcane Power up as PDFs I got an email saying they would all be gone the next day so buy and download any last copies before they were gone. And within a day there was no option to buy any more.WotC put out a statement about piracy but it seemed pretty clear it was to cut off access in an attempt to spur people to buy physical books of the current edition. That legal access for any old edition PDF was then gone for years until WotC decided to go a different direction.Legal access is not guaranteed for always. WotC has pulled it away before.</blockquote>