Originally Posted by Paul Markham

I'll tell you whats worse. Is when a sponsor is informed of an affiliate stealing content and then insists on the content owner jumping through all the hoops of a DMCA. When the stolen content has the owners watermark on it. Or the content was clearly flay bed scanned out of a magazine. And when when you catch a same sponsor taking traffic from the same affiliate again and again with stolen content.

Yes those things happened.

I was a full member of APIC and some of todays biggest guys were stealing content or supporting those who did. Some of them even walk up to me at shows and with a smirk tell me they were stealing my content.c They don't offer to pay for it.

Now we are under threat from someone stealing from us, now it's a crime. The culprit has become the victim.

The saying "people in glass houses etc." comes to mind.