RIAA as 17th Century French button maker

Posted Tuesday January 16, 2007, 6:49 am, Over one day old

It seems tailors began making buttons out of dense cloth, which outraged the established button making industry, leading to the government imposition of strict fines on the cloth button makers, and some rather-paranoid tactics to ensure control of the market.

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