Never before in history has anyone been able to download and print the kind of information that had been locked behind closed doors. For example: the websites that provide access to confidential materials such as the Elder's book, branch manuals, damning legal documents (Barb Anderson's CD), and letters to bodies of elders. There are many curious active JWs who want to see the Elder's book and branch manuals for example.
Prior to the internet, hardly anyone had heard of Ray Franz. The internet has made Ray Franz a household name among ex-JWs. His books have exploded in popularity with the proliferation of ex-JW websites and discussion forums.
The Watchtower organization has thrived on it's perceived aura of spiritual loftiness and nebulous Divine power because of how much goes on behind closed doors among the "elite" John Class. With the free flow of information, this mysterious Divine loftiness disappears; and what is left in it's place is a group of delusional old men and a team of lawyers running a printing corporation.
Now that we can learn the truth about the "Truth", we see that there is no Jehovah guiding a modern day body of prophets. There is merely a group of offices in Brooklyn and Patterson filled with petty, petulant, and grandiose Adventist impersonators. Jehovah is merely a shadow puppet projected onto the minds of millions of people by a bunch of delusional old windbags.