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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 8244158" data-attributes="member: 14159">Truth be told, it wasn't just TSR.In the early/mid 1990's, a lot of companies didn't know how to deal with the rise of the internet.  They interpreted fan pages the same way they'd interpret an unauthorized 3rd party book being published about whatever their IP is.Viacom did the same thing with Star Trek fan pages for a while in the mid 1990's, treating all Trek fan pages as copyright infringement, trying to shut them all down, and explicitly saying that the only Star Trek website on the internet should be their official website.The attempted purge didn't succeed, and cooler heads prevailed after a little while, but it does show that TSR was not alone in a ham-fisted and inept transition to the internet age.</blockquote>