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Old 10-07-2007, 01:04 AM  
dig420
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Originally Posted by RawAlex View Post
Just like email spam, many profited from it, but in the end 99% of them have moved away from it as the risk / return ratios went down the toilet. I think that someone like Diamond Jim spending the next 63 months in jail should be a total wakeup call to many in the industry that at some point, the penalties aren't just "a cost of doing business" but means you could spend time in a federal butt slamming prison.

My feeling is that the toolbar thing is about get blown wide open.
I can name 5 companies in as many seconds that are 10x more unethical and dishonest than DJ ever was. He must have had a shitty lawyer, because operations thousands of times bigger than his have paid fines and moved on their merry way doing even worse shit.
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