It's like the old RIAA battles of the early-noughties, Napster et al. Instead of spotting the market, buying up the company who built it and slapping a fee on

It's like the old RIAA battles of the early-noughties, Napster et al. Instead of spotting the market, buying up the company who built it and slapping a fee on "unlimited music for a month" (a la Spotify), they sought to legislate it out of existence and in turn had their lunch eaten for them. Dinosaurs trying to avoid the asteroid.