Magic publishers sent Pinkerton agents to a YouTuber’s house to retrieve leaked cards

When Magic: The Gathering cards turned up on YouTube last week, publisher Wizards of the Coast (which also publishes D&D) sent private investigators from Pinkerton to retrieve them. The resulting confrontation reportedly frightened one woman to tears, and resulted in the confiscation of nearly two dozen boxes of cards by private investigators. Wizards confirmed the incident to Polygon.

In case anyone else was curious what this was referring to.

I don’t know, I kind of gave up trying to buy one after the first one didn’t work out. Mapillary recommends the GoPro Max (this was why I was interested), but I couldn’t tell you if it needs an app to work.

This reminds me of when I tried to buy an insta360 camera, only to learn after the fact that it requires an app to function. And that the app isn’t even compatible with all phones and tablets.

Maybe it’s buried on the store page somewhere that installing the app is a requirement, but I was pretty annoyed to learn that I had just bought a plastic brick unless I also wanted to upgrade my phone.

Just turn off your ad blocker, they’re already trying to get in touch with you

I really don’t think CSAM is a fake crime, but we can’t all be libertarians.

Wouldn’t you know it, there’s a wikipedia article for that. I personally have used 7digital and bandcamp, but qobuz has been mentioned several times in other comments and hdtracks seems like it might work after you create an account.

They might be the most common because they’re the easiest, but there are also still plenty of people actually paying for the games. I’ll never be convinced that piracy is an actual threat to making money. Piracy has never been easier, just see /c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com for proof, and yet pretty much all forms of entertainmment are as profitable as ever.

(C )Any digital good that is advertised or offered to a person that the seller cannot revoke access to after the transaction, which includes making the digital good available at the time of purchase for permanent offline download to an external storage source to be used without a connection to the internet.

It shouldn’t be that hard, gog.com manages to do it

Do online multiplayer video games count as a commercial use? I kind of like those

https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/1995-animal-shapes

Another problem might be that animal shapes only has a range of 30 ft