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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 5613568" data-attributes="member: 14159"><p>The RIAA going after the "small fry" alleged downloaders who downloaded only a few songs was more of a campaign to strike fear than anything else. They wanted everyone on the internet to fear litigation from the RIAA if they ever downloaded as much as a single song illegally. </p><p></p><p>So, they filed cases against little old ladies who barely knew what the internet was and only ever e-mailed with it (and probably had somebody leeching off a wi-fi signal, or their grandkids did it one time while visiting), or so many other spurious suits.</p><p></p><p>The RIAA's situation was far more of one where a cartel that had ruled an industry for most of a century was unwilling to accept that their business model was on the verge of obsolescence from new distribution technology. They were not particularly friendly about licensing music for legal downloads, and were far more interested in using legal means to crush new technology than embrace the changing economy.</p><p></p><p>In RPG's, physical books still offer ease of use at a level that no tablet or laptop can reach, and so many other RPG products (cards, miniatures, scenery) cannot really be replicated or used meaningfully in digital format.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 5613568, member: 14159"] The RIAA going after the "small fry" alleged downloaders who downloaded only a few songs was more of a campaign to strike fear than anything else. They wanted everyone on the internet to fear litigation from the RIAA if they ever downloaded as much as a single song illegally. So, they filed cases against little old ladies who barely knew what the internet was and only ever e-mailed with it (and probably had somebody leeching off a wi-fi signal, or their grandkids did it one time while visiting), or so many other spurious suits. The RIAA's situation was far more of one where a cartel that had ruled an industry for most of a century was unwilling to accept that their business model was on the verge of obsolescence from new distribution technology. They were not particularly friendly about licensing music for legal downloads, and were far more interested in using legal means to crush new technology than embrace the changing economy. In RPG's, physical books still offer ease of use at a level that no tablet or laptop can reach, and so many other RPG products (cards, miniatures, scenery) cannot really be replicated or used meaningfully in digital format. [/QUOTE]
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