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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 7707365" data-attributes="member: 907">My point is that pirates' gonna pirate. Pirated PDFs exist. That is a fact, regardless of the ethics of copyright infringement (a discussion which would be political and thus not welcome on this site). I could, if I wanted to, acquire a PDF of Volo's Guide to Monsters in less than 5 minutes, and Wizards wouldn't make a cent off that. It would probably be easier for me to do that than buying it off the DM's Guild (had I been able to), where there'd be login and checkout procedures, and the download taking extra time because the files have to be watermarked and whatnot.In the face of that fact, it makes little sense not to sell PDFs yourself for piracy reasons. That frigate has already sailed. You might as well offer the PDFs for sale to those who desire PDFs and are willing to pay for them.Now, there may be other reasons not to offer PDFs for sale. Perhaps your retailers don't like it when you sell directly to your customers, and are pressuring you not to. That kind of makes sense, particularly for a company that relies so much retailers doing things that aren't just selling stuff (Magic tournaments are kind of big, I hear). But not selling PDFs because of piracy is cutting off your nose to spite your face.</blockquote>