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Originally Posted by TheDoc
They are 100% legal. Newsgroups are legal, newsgroup feed sites are legal, they have been to court and back and they all still stand.
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A comment which is self-servingly obtuse at best...
Whatever the legalities of signing up affiliates to promote a source of (largely) stolen content, making it more accessible, etc., doing so runs contrary to the interests of everyone not profiting directly from such activities.
Take competitiveness to its absolute conclusion and we would all end up promoting one sponsor. If that sponsor were, for illustration, Lightspeed, most of their affiliates might not be making much, but Lightspeed would be booming. However, long before we could all get around to promoting Guba, they would have gone out of business with no new content to offer. With no pay sites to loot, Usenet groups would be reduced to third-rate magazine scans and DVD screencaps.
In reality, we will never get more than a few steps along that road, even if Guba manages to become the most successful sponsor out there. But the fact remains that whatever success Guba does have encouraging surfers to be satisfied with stolen content, is damaging to all other sponsors and their affiliates: in other words, to the vast majority of visitors to boards like this.
That is what made it particularly insulting to visit GFY yesterday and see Guba's name plastered all over it...