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I think that we need to look at our goals and then look at the problems that are keeping us from reaching those goals and do our best to fix it.
The goal for most here is to run a small business that is profitable. We strive to make the business profitable so that the business can pay us a nice salary and we can live ours lives, pay our mortgage, have a decent car, and for many raise our family in a decent style and environment.
Thats simple and it doesn't matter if the business is an online content website or a beer store on the corner. The overall goal is the same - a profitable business that feeds our lifestyle and family.
Let me use that beer store as an example -
If any of us ran a beer store and during the course of business we found a guy stealing cases of beer out the back door of our building and setting up a beer stand across the street offering (our) beer at half price we would do something to stop him.
Not because we don't want him in the beer business - but we don't want him in the beer business with our beer and at our expense.
If possible we would lock the door. If he still managed to get in we would change the locks and put up big signs warning him about alarms or trespassing laws. At this point we may also call in law enforcement but to them beer (like online photos and video copyright theft) is not something they have time for so they are of no help and the beer thief knows this.
If he still managed to get in we would get a big badass dog and hope he came back so the dog could take a nice bite out of his ass.
If, somehow, he kept coming back and managed to get past the dog we would get a gun and wait in the store and if the fucker came back we would put a bullet in his fucking chest.
We are not doing it to protect the beer. We are doing it to protect the business because, as explained above, that small business is what feeds us, our lifestyles, our families, our kids and our future. Its self-defense and only the most pussy of people would let that beer thief come back again and again and again without taking serious action.
Online content is beer. Online forums displaying our content are the beer stand across the street.
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