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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 9427807" data-attributes="member: 725">These extreme actions by WotC/Hasbro legal and management tend to come from people that don't (want to) understand how piracy works. The moment they release the book on DDB, it's going to be ripped to a pdf, the moment they sell one of the books, ship one of the books to reviewers, etc. There only needs to be one person that gets their hands on it (not the intended recepient and scans it. If the review copies all have watermarks, they can just OCR the text and distribute that without the watermarks. There are so many holes in the distribution scheme of the PHB that on one hand they want to have the marketing hype cake, but heavy highhandedly try to squash anything that looks like too much distribution...I wonder if no one at WotC remembers the run up to 3E, this site started that way, as a collection point of all those rumors. We were playing D&D 3E before it even came out, just based on all the rumors that were collected here. It hyped us up for 3E and we all dived into D&D again after a decent 2E hiatus. I wonder what would have happened to D&D if they killed ENworld back when it was still a babe... I suspect a LOT of us would have lost all their enthusiasm... But chances are big that no one from 25 years ago still works at current WotC (after all those holiday firings)..I already have my preorders in for the Foundry VTT PHB/DMG/MM, so I'm committed. None of my group would have bought the PHB before first having a look at my virtual books in our VTT. I won't buy the physical books before looking at my digital copies either...</blockquote>

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