Things that haven't been mentioned yet but are also viable things regarding RMT.
Credit card charge backs are a real thing with online communities. Even if Nilbog and Roegen aren't directly implicated with stolen credit card numbers and RMT, places that deal with financial things can swoop in and start making things uncomfortable for them even if they didn't have anything to do with the transaction. This by itself makes stopping RMT an easier thing to do than dealing with the powers that be.
Slightly more weird is how places like the IRS handle online purchases for virtual things. So if somebody purchases Windows 10 from Microsoft they'll pay $100 for the software plus some tax. The IRS will see the entire thing and process things accordingly. If I and another willing party wanted my PID for Win10 we could mutually agree to conduct a financial transaction for my product key. I would be required to disclose by law the sell of my PID key. If I made a profit I'd be required to file an income report based on that sale. This is a virtual item, kinda similar to say and earth staff or white dragon scale for example. So if an earth staff is worth $700 some uppity bean counter that wants to make a name for themselves could swoop in and loudly proclaim that Roegen and Nilbog are generating $500k/year worth of virtual items.....um, ridiculous but there's also barely enough truth to this statement that it could make their lives a bit uncomfortable.
Lastly, it's easiest to just ban RMT outright rather than say "RMT is fine in this situation but not in others". Some might think it's ok for a level 2 bard to be running around in a full suit of bronze that cost the owner 10 minutes worth of work at a tech job but slippery slopes are, well......slippery.
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