Seriously... NDA's in the RPG industry make about as much sense as pinstriped referees in a game of street hockey.
We are, basically, a cottage industry.
A cottage industry that nobody else gives a shit about, except as a cheap laugh once in a rare while.
We are incredibly well networked - dealing with at least one small personal network is a
requirement for entry into the hobby.
We are
unbelievably dedicated to our hobby. We love it.
The people that provide the one service we need most - creation of new games - are almost completely undifferentiated from us.
Most of our game companies and game producers make puny amounts of money. We know this. They talk to us
all the time.
I honestly don't comprehend how, given that situation, any of us would want to do a single damn thing to screw with those relationships.
And before you go on about "what relationships?"...
I have, in my hard drive right now, over thirty games that were
given to me as PDFs from people in gaming. Not one of them has met me face-to-face. Most of them haven't exchanged more than a few hundred words with me. I have written not one review. This doesn't count the ones I won as prizes in the Indie Game contest.
Those relationships.