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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 4747927" data-attributes="member: 71571">There IS a difference tho between 'So and So Corporation is Evil' and 'So and So Corporation is not doing what I want.'The fact is, Wizards tried distributing PDFs and found that people were using that avenue to steal their work.Lots of people.  Lots of stealing.And Wizards -should- be concerned with Piracy.  How many of their books were leaked online before one could buy a copy?  How many people have said 'Well I'd buy the book but I had the PDF a week ago?'This isn't a small problem, and it's been really pronounced with this current edition.The bottom line is that people were stealing their work, thereby crapping in the proverbial pool.  So they had to make some sort of decision.  Do they continue to enable the distribution channel that allows the thieves to steal their work?  Do they start assigning DRM on their work making paying customers less able to access it?The decision to pull PDFs could not have been an easy one for them to make.  I -severely- doubt that it was made in the name of malice, but rather in -response to- malice.  And they're going after the sources of that grievance, and they should.Ask yourself this, if you worked hard to develop something and decided that your livelihood, whether or not your children get to eat supper, is based on the sales of this development, and someone was stealing it, would you be sympathetic?The worst part of it is, the best justification anyone can come up with for piracy is 'Well you can't really stop it.'  If someone stole from you and then said, to your face, 'Well, you can't really stop me' who is the dick here?  Who is the real villain in this?What if the sales for the PDFs were dwarfed by the numbers for the -stealing- of the PDFs?  Then it wouldn't make -sense- to keep distributing them.Bottom line.  Wizards distributed PDFs, people used them to steal from Wizards, so Wizards decided to stop distributing them.  It won't prevent all piracy, but it'll make it harder.  I for one want to protect the paychecks of the people who craft these game systems so I can enjoy them.  I don't understand why -anyone- would want to endanger the livelihood of those that create what you enjoy.</blockquote>

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