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A1R3K,
First off, thankyou for making this thread, timely to say the least.
As said earlier, I think its important to define your terms of reference ie "good" and "bad" is too subjective, and allows for companies and individuals to descend into pointing fingers as a means of settling scores rather than constructing a framework under which hard work and good business practices are rewarded.
Though straight-forwards theft maybe relatively easy to identify (and even remedy), there are many companies standing in the shadows that indirectly benefit from say, traffic from torrents. Rather like Kevin Bacon...how many degrees of separation might you consider? An example: A torrent site (with complete rips of all my sites) jam-hot.com was running ads for Xbiz Awards. These awards are sponsored by, amongst other companies, Epoch, who in turn, are the billing company for the ripped sites! When I pointed out to Epoch that they were sponsoring a company that was cannibalizing the industry it purported to support, they replied (in fairness, very pronto) that there was really nothing they could do. This was such a sad reply that even baby Jesus's puppy wept.
In the end I posted in a thread re Xbiz, and I now notice that the ads are gone. I'd like to think that there was a connection between posting about their ads and your stirring up a stink with regard to shady business practices. I cannot thank Xbiz for removing the ads because they shouldn't of been there in the first place. Infact my blood pressure soars at the idea that they made a conscious decision to advertise there. I think its important for sponsors to be more forceful with regard to where ads are placed...as in the real world, these peeps need to be aware that there are consequences for pissing on those who make them their living.
Enough!
And thanks again.
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