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Originally posted by Mike AI@Feb 24 2003, 03:51 PM
BUT, what is ironic is CJ built up their business model by stealing other peoples content, by profiting off of stolen copyrighted material
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Weeelll, if I may be the estrogen version of the Devil's Advocate for a moment
(it's REALLY nice outside today and I've been enjoying the mountain air and the lake and I'm in even a cockier mood than normal
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Except for a few, Michael being one of those few, the majority of the large sites that started back in 1996ish ALL built their businesses on "stolen", copyrighted material. They'd download the material from the newsgroups and upload it to their sites. It was a free for all and a LOT of $$$ was made which was then used to buy content once content started being sold. So, if you're going to call a spade a spade.... there are a lot of people making a lot more money today than CJ that started that same way.
(I'm going back outside now - 70 degrees on Saturday, 1/2 inch of snow Sunday morning, 65 now, and maybe flurries again Tues night - I feel like I'm on an acid trip.......
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