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Originally Posted by porno jew
ever hear of craigslist? giving classifieds away from free pretty much hollowed out your local print newspaper and all the real jobs that it provided. you should check it out.
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1. What Craigslist did was perfectly legal and ethical. There was no theft involved whatsoever. They are not stealing someone elses product and giving it away free.
2. Your example only supports my point. What was the value of all the newspapers which folded or lost revenue as compared to the revenue Craigslist currently takes in? Likely Craigslists take in a mere fraction of what the newspapers have lost.
But don't get me wrong. Technology has to change. But this does not mean theft is justified or that a given industry will always benefit financially from such change.