The rent-seeking cartels strike again.<p>I think Emerson is apposite here: "When you strike at a king, you must kill him.”<p>Attacking an entrenched monopoly or cartel is pretty hard to bootstrap. When you are small you can make progress as you are invisible to the big guys. Once you start to ve visible they will reach out and crush you long before you can pose a threat.<p>Legal efforts like NoLo have survived because they <i>don't</i> threaten the kinds, but merely replace small lawyers.<p>The only paths I've seen work (and they are very hard) against the cartels are 1 - to slowly build a movement, so by the time it is visible it is actually already too big to crush. This requires recruiting all sorts of allies, like (in this case) some significant law firms, which means figuring out for them what's in it for them. Or 2 - get a bit of traction and then raise so much money that you can in fact stand up to the big guys. But you need a business model that pays the investors back. Also not easy.