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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Panzeh" data-source="post: 4746888" data-attributes="member: 82267">The new moves seem really ill-conceived and not very well thought out.  I mean, people try to paint this as something WoTC had to do, but could they not have seen piracy as a problem before releasing PHB2?  All of their books have been heavily pirated before, it's rather strange to wait until the PDFs are already out in pirated channels before moving in to keep the PDFs out of the public.  I suppose they wanted to try to sue some pirates by letting them try, but it seems to me that seeing how the cat is already out of the bag, that's pointless.  If they didn't want PDFs in the typical pirate channels, they should not have sold them in the first place, and maybe it would delay the pirates somewhat.  As it is now, it seems like a pointless decision, the only rational basis I can think of is that they hope to make up for reduced profits with the settlements for these lawsuits, which is absurd.I'm kind of thinking WoTC is uniquely incompetent, but I could be wrong here.</blockquote>