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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 5793760" data-attributes="member: 20741">In all honesty, I think WotC's approach to the issue of protection against piracy by providing online access to their rules to monthly subscribers via DDI is an entirely balanced and reasonable response. And while I have not tried it via iPad, I am guessing it works from that platform, too, via 3G.Don't get me wrong. I LOVE my iPad and consider it essential gaming gear. Hell -- so much so -- I got two of em for that purpose. So I'm totally with you on this one, except, the capitalist in me sees WotC's viewpoint here.Thinking of this from an internal perspective, at the time, WotC with 4E was just seeing its own IP from 3.5 deployed as a direct competitor to its new game. It was also seeing its .pdf books pirated and reasonably believed they were clearly losing sales from that piracy as a result. And don't say that doesn't happen -- it surely does. We've all seen it. "We gave away the IP in the OGL, now we are giving away the IP via pirated .pdfs -- just how the hell are we supposed to make money around here!!"They are a book publisher, after all. That's the core of  their business in terms of D&D (or at least, was).If I was at WotC when that (dramatically re-enacted) meeting happened -- I would have kept my head down, too and mumbled "hell yes" to doing it via DDI subscriptions.My point: There's more than one way to serve demand for digital products.</blockquote>