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Originally Posted by jayeff
I don't get the constant references to "business" from you and others with similar views. Traffic hijacking has nothing to do with legitimate competition and it is obtuse to imply otherwise, simply because the law always takes a while to catch up with technology and hasn't done so yet in this case.
Or is that someone who writes out a check to Zango (or to an affiliate who pays Zango) is somehow not stealing traffic as surely as if he wrote the code himself and planted it directly onto your server?
By extension I don't get the talk about friendship, liking etc either. Unless you are kidding yourself that traffic hijacking isn't really theft, how naive (at best) do you have to be to rationalize theft away according to the way it is done and the amount involved? Simple question: what kind of "friend" would steal from you?
I can respect the heck out of someone who beats me fair and square. And if I respect someone, there is a pretty good chance I might like him/her too. But respect or like someone who clearly thinks I'm just another mug to be suckered? What kind of of fool would that make me?
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It's ok to be friends with someone if the business they own steals from you. BUt it is not ok to be friends with someone if they steal the money from you themselves.
If they do it through their "business" and steal money from your business it is ok, it's just business. But if they take money out of your wallet when you not looking that that is " Personal".
I am as lost with this as you are at the way some of these people here think. I asked a very very simple question and i got fucking ten pages back about not taking hit men to conventions, lynchings, public enemy #1, and about 50 other rediculas sayings all because I asked 1 very simple question:
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If Lars' "business decisions" help contribute to the company you work for to lose a lot of money and you get laid off because their sales are down due to all the free content floating around on sites that lars supports..... would you still like him personally ?
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hint it was a yes or no question.