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Originally Posted by random50
Bearing that in mind, do you not think, assuming point 3 is not a coincidence, that the industry could have achieved the increased awareness by gentler methods? Those lawsuits generated an awful lot of ill will, and at a time when there was already growing resentment toward big corporations.
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They could have achieved awareness by other means, but the contribution towards the chilling effect didn't just come by people being aware that it was illegal -- but also by fear that they'd get nailed (although they couldn't sue everyone, the high profile of the those stories certainly had an effect on the weakminded who couldn't calculate their own odds of getting caught--they "felt" like there were more suits than there actually were). As I said, ill will was part of the plan. Increasing awareness is just part of what shows that suits contributed towards point 3.