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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Derulbaskul" data-source="post: 5507254" data-attributes="member: 1581">The PDF decision was clearly driven by Hasbro's lawyers. In a real business, the commercial heads would decide whether to accept or reject legal advice. I suspect that D&D is so small within both WotC and Hasbro that there was nobody with enough clout to say that pulling PDFs was a really stupid idea that did nothing to defeat piracy. (And it was a stupid idea and it did nothing to defeat piracy.)Corporates (and other large entities) aren't always about making the right decisions; they're about not being blamed. That's particularly the case when you're part of a small unit.[guessing] Also, to buy some time with the corporate masters to address poor financial results, perhaps piracy was blamed for falling sales. That would have triggered the silly decision and possibly bought some time from Hasbro to try and fix the loss of sales (which, of course, had nothing to do with piracy). [/guessing]</blockquote>