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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 9427955" data-attributes="member: 725">About $4.67 Billion to get 51% of Hasbro... (at the moment). You just need another 75 million like minded people with $62.50 in their pocket... Yeah... Getting a consensus in that amount of people... Good luck! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Jaywalking is also illegal... Have you never done that? When a cop sees that, they might give you a ticket or a warning, their prerogative. But it's a jackass move to give someone a ticket when that same cop asks you to cross the road to do something for them and you jaywalk. Sure, you should have used the appropriate crossing, but you could have acted in good faith that you had permission to cross the road right there given by that cop.We have NO insights in what kind of documents were signed, what kind of conversations happened, etc. And certainly not for every reviewer that got a copy. So anything and everything here is speculation.And sharing every page via a video is perfectly legal, when you have permission to distribute. And what some have shared in this thread, that could easily have been a miscommunication. WotC intended one thing, the reviewer interpreted it in another way.Someone gave the example of streaming a movie and saying that it's obvious that's not allowed. Now let me give you the example of streaming a game, play-troughs for streamers and Youtubers in computer game world are extremely common. It's what Twitch has been build on. So if one is fine (unless you're called Nintendo) and the other isn't, what is the average YTer/streamer to know the difference, especially if what was communicated could be interpreted in a certain way?The normal thing to do would be contact (as in call) the reviewer, discuss that this isn't what was intended and if the reviewer could offline the video asap. That would #1 be faster, #2 be the human thing to do, and #3 keeps this negative publicity out of circulation. And IF the reviewer didn't do that, THEN you could take legal action. And we don't know what happened exactly. But in my experience with big multinationals that cater to a niche hobby, this is probably a corporate overreaction.What people seem to forget is that these weren't rando's that bought the PHB at GenCon, but 'reviewers' that were essentially acting as agents for WotC/Hasbro. There already was a communication channel going between both parties, why not use that?</blockquote>

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