Virus opened this issue on Apr 27, 2000 ยท 52 posts
Keith posted Thu, 27 April 2000 at 1:54 PM
I thrust that everyone realizes that the logic behind this action is somewhat ridiculous? It doesn't do anything to the guy who's been stealing the work (except that he can't steal some more from that one site). The only thing it does do is put pressure on innocent users to do something to the guy. I'd call that blackmail. And not directed at the bad guy. And say that he is shut down. What then? Does the site get taken down everytime someone misuses something one of the members puts there? What's being done is equivalent to a software maker completely pulling a popular program off the shelves because some moron somewhere pirated the program. Instead of going after the guy doing it, they're punishing everyone but the guilty party. Pardon the honesty, but I find that incredibly stupid.