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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 9630294" data-attributes="member: 6915329">If you don't understand what the term "leg-breakers" mean, that's not my fault.There is zero reason to hire a security/investigative team to do anything other than security and investigative issues. Going to a youtuber's house to demand MtG cards is neither a security nor investigative issue. Now, if the Pinkertons had been sent to the factory that made the cards, or to the distributors' warehouses, that would be another thing, because that's where the actual issue lay: they needed to find out how the cards go out.The only reason to send the Pinkertons was to intimidate Dan Cannon, the youtuber who revealed the cards, into giving them back without a fight. <a href="https://www.dicebreaker.com/categories/trading-card-game/news/magic-the-gathering-aftermath-youtube-prompts-pinkerton-investigation" target="_blank">"In a video explainer published April 22nd, Cannon claims the agents threatened jail time, huge fines and other repercussions if he didn’t relinquish the “stolen product”, which reportedly upset his wife to the point of tears. The creator said that he purchased the boxes from an acquaintance who did not realise March of the Machine: The Aftermath was a substantively different MTG product from the recently released March of the Machine set. The Pinkertons took everything, including tokens and packaging, before giving him the number for a Wizards of the Coast employee."</a>Because the cards were not stolen goods, and quite probably a lawyer would tell them they didn't have the right to demand the cards if they had been legally purchased. And if they had been stolen goods, then the police should have been involved. I'm sure the internet would have had a different reaction to this if WotC could prove that the cards were literally stolen property. A lot of people, in talking about the DMCA takedown (both here and on reddit), y'know, the one this thread is about, have said "Yeah, this was a dumb PR move because it was basically free advertising for D&D" but nobody is saying that WotC did anything legally wrong. People are actually understanding the why behind this, even if they disagree with the actions. But WotC didn't get the law involved. They got mercenaries.</blockquote>

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