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Message: <blockquote data-quote="technoir" data-source="post: 4745010" data-attributes="member: 50319">Okay I don't jump in on discussions often but I will take a swing here. Why is it a big deal?  A couple of reasons. First off, while PDF's are not your cup of tea they are a growing segment of the market. Do they represent a large percentage of D&D sales?  No probably not.  Were there more and more people buying them?  yes. As things like eReaders, I pod Touch, and laptops slowly become more common at the game table the PDF becomes more and more useful.  Right now the precentage of people using them may be low but it is most definitely growing. WotC declining to persue selling them any further is an unfortunate decision but not terrible.  Okay they loose out on sales they might have otherwise gotten.  However when they began suing people for pirating said PDF's is where you run in to some real idiocy. If you eliminate the only legitimate source for your product and there is still demand, then people will persue the illegal sources.  Sue the folks sharing these files is just a bad idea.  It will not eliminate their being shared.  Ask the RIAA how well that tactic worked for them.  Not only will it not stop them but it earns you a lot of ill will. It is a big deal when an important company in the industry begins doing the stupid. Will it effect your local game? probably not.  But honestly if it was not that big a deal to you, why did you start a thread about it?</blockquote>

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