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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 9428000" data-attributes="member: 18182">The idea that WotC's actions on this are reasonable, and content creators like [USER=54840]@SlyFlourish[/USER] should have known better . . . is a supremely weird take, IMO.How WotC handled this was pure incompetence, and inadvertently anti-consumer and anti-community. By itself, a mistake we can move past, but . . . it adds to the death of a thousand cuts WotC has been inflicting upon itself over the past few years.DnDShorts probably shouldn't have done a flip through of every page, but his was a mistake of the amateur content creator and a passionate fan. The fact some trogs out there took advantage of that and created a pirated PDF of the PHB is unfortunate, but is not the fault of DnDShorts, it is the fault of the pirates. And ultimately, a pirated PDF would have been created soon anyway, just by a different means (scanning one of the GenCon books, for example).WotC does need to concern itself with piracy of their books, but in so doing, they should really try to avoid burning their fans and partners, like [USER=54840]@SlyFlourish[/USER]. Especially when that burning does nothing to prevent piracy anyway.The style of preview engaged in by [USER=54840]@SlyFlourish[/USER] and Jorphdan is pretty common, and quite reasonable that they used this style in sharing their thoughts on the new PHB.Now, even though WotC is walking back the copyright strikes, YouTube creators will be very gun shy when it comes to previewing the upcoming DMG and MM later this year and early next. WotC shot themselves in the foot, again.I'll still be purchasing all three core books but . . . my enthusiasm for official D&D products continues to wane and my interest in alternatives like Tales of the Valiant and Level Up grows.</blockquote>

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