Originally Posted by Far-L

Great post and worthy of kudos for professionalism.

and on a business note...

So why not, in light of legal perspective, try to undermine the un-authorized content at the root level by working with them? The benefit in the long run outwieghs the downside, if you ask me. Control of your brand. Increase of Traffic. Profitable partnership. Compared to endless DMCA hell. Loss of brand recognition. No traffic. No income from content.

Everyone is free to stand on principles that have and are being adjudicated constantly. As business owners, we have to stand on that wobbling surface of legality and figure out how to be profitable given the circumstances.

The first dictum I learned in this business was that all traffic could be profitable as long as you optimized/filtered/geo-targeted/marketed wisely, you could always do something with the eyeballs hitting your links. imo, the people that will thrive in today's intellectual property landscape are the ones that best understand that and can take advantage of it.