I agree this is fucked up!
We gave a lot of free content away to entice surfers to visit our sites --- it worked because it was a pain in the ass for anyone to collect it ALL --- until *now*.
I think the search engines are really overstepping here. Wasn't there a legal test case about this a few years ago? About linking to the meat of a site's content, and bypassing advertisements and age checks? I seem to remember Microsoft was in the middle of it?
I don't know if anything can be done now, but this is hurting our business, and we need to collectively step forward and make our position heard before it gets worse.
Steve Lightspeed
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Abra-cadabra!
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