User blog comment:Sgt D Grif/Leaked Content and Spoilers/@comment-6490434-20140412005338/@comment-4403232-20140412030947

I vaguely recall one of the RT Staff (Might have been Monty) saying one of the reasons they don't like the bootlegged recordings is that they want their audience to experience things the right way, meaning that if they didn't experience it in an auditorium full of their fellow fans, they want them to experience it in proper HD and audio, and not from some shaky low-res camera recording. As for why they choose special/early videos as the "something special" they give their fans is a question I don't have an answer for. However, the fact that these things happen when they do so may cause changes in their methods one day.

Aside from the fact that we would like to follow Rooster Teeth's wishes as best as possible, one of the reasons we remain leak and spoiler free is that we don't any user who visits here to feel pressured to "cheat". Everyone who wants to wait to experience it the proper way has the right to do so, and by allowing leaked content, a feeling of "Either cheat so you know what's going on, or be left out and excluded until the release" is created here. The choice to come here shouldn't be coupled with the choice to "cheat." It's not our role to judge those who decide to watch or even distribute the bootlegged copies, that's a choice that those involved make, which they can do on their own via some other venue, as long as they don't ruin the experience for anyone here.

...Sleepy Grif may have rambled on there a bit.