> Forcing those businesses to stop selling and close up shop would have made matters worse for everyone. No, it would have made matters worse for the aforement

> Forcing those businesses to stop selling and close up shop would have made matters worse for everyone. No, it would have made matters worse for the aforementioned small businesses*, and better for private end users. edit: *and we don't even know how "small" those really are, we could be talking about tens of hundreds of thousands of units being sold.