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<blockquote data-quote="Friadoc" data-source="post: 4743154" data-attributes="member: 5445">You're right, in part, Filcher, in that WotC is well within their rights to decide not to sell their products in a e-format like PDF, it's their choice to enter or exit a particular market.However, as with others, even myself, we're assuming facts not in evidence here, about what OneBookShelf/RPGNow/DriveThru and Wizards of the Coast's business relationship was and what both parties knew and/or agreed to. It is quite arguable, though, that by being aware of the copy download policy for PDFs via OBS' outlets, as well as Paizo, that their consent and acceptance of the policy was implied. Either it was implicitly accepted or else WotC was ignorant of their rights and either didn't know how to defend them or chose not to.But, at this point, there is more assuming going on than knowing, on both sides of this, and until, if ever, we see the agreement between the two, all we're gonna see is the disagreement and objection over the course of action and regardless of who made the promise, thus who is liable for it, WotC is obviously making an Old Media mistake in a New Media world and is going to suffer for it.Piracy is still going to happen like it did before WotC allowed PDF copies of their books, even now that they've retreated from PDFs. It ain't gonna stop a thing, except for the loyalty and patronage of some customers. Personally, I'm going with more New Media savvy folk, big and small, like Paizo, Rite Publishing, Wolfgang Baur, and so forth.It's sad, really, because I've had a lot of positive things to say about 4e and the DDI, even run a 4e game on Sundays, but now I'm just irked. Hopefully WotC will come up with something that fixes things, before it gets a bit worse.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Friadoc, post: 4743154, member: 5445"] You're right, in part, Filcher, in that WotC is well within their rights to decide not to sell their products in a e-format like PDF, it's their choice to enter or exit a particular market. However, as with others, even myself, we're assuming facts not in evidence here, about what OneBookShelf/RPGNow/DriveThru and Wizards of the Coast's business relationship was and what both parties knew and/or agreed to. It is quite arguable, though, that by being aware of the copy download policy for PDFs via OBS' outlets, as well as Paizo, that their consent and acceptance of the policy was implied. Either it was implicitly accepted or else WotC was ignorant of their rights and either didn't know how to defend them or chose not to. But, at this point, there is more assuming going on than knowing, on both sides of this, and until, if ever, we see the agreement between the two, all we're gonna see is the disagreement and objection over the course of action and regardless of who made the promise, thus who is liable for it, WotC is obviously making an Old Media mistake in a New Media world and is going to suffer for it. Piracy is still going to happen like it did before WotC allowed PDF copies of their books, even now that they've retreated from PDFs. It ain't gonna stop a thing, except for the loyalty and patronage of some customers. Personally, I'm going with more New Media savvy folk, big and small, like Paizo, Rite Publishing, Wolfgang Baur, and so forth. It's sad, really, because I've had a lot of positive things to say about 4e and the DDI, even run a 4e game on Sundays, but now I'm just irked. Hopefully WotC will come up with something that fixes things, before it gets a bit worse. [/QUOTE]

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