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Old 02-20-2006, 05:02 PM  
Libertine
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Originally Posted by Forkbeard
GUBA has been around forever, and it hasn't caused sales to "shrivel up" at the other sites I promote. In fact, some of my best sponsors also promote their stuff heavily on the newsgroups, and thus in GUBA.

My theory is that GUBA buyers are a different category of surfer from the category that signs up for paysites. Because, in my experience, promoting GUBA does not hurt paysite signups, even when I promote both to the same traffic.
This is about the long term, and since the amount of internet users is still growing, of course the effects are hardly noticable right now. However, every person with a Guba membership is paying for content to a company that did not pay for that content.

Basically, because Guba avoids paying for content, it is unfair competition.
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