No, they're classic rent seekers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking ...rent-seeking is an attempt to obtain

No, they're classic rent seekers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking ...rent-seeking is an attempt to obtain economic rent by manipulating the social or political environment in which economic activities occur... Many current studies of rent-seeking focus on efforts to capture various monopoly privileges stemming from government regulation of free competition. In practice, the difference comes to this: Its the government's clubs that finally smash your business, not the troll's.