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Unfortunately we can't turn back the clock. We can look to our past and learn from our mistakes. But we can't go back to the way it was.

I believe a lot of this is because of the low barrier to entry and the global nature of our industry. Obviously you (Dave) and I have high targets for what we want and expect to make. The same can't be said for people in smaller developing countries. For webmasters that live in countries where the average person earns $400 per month anything more than that is doing well for themselves. You ask any North American webmaster if they'd be satisfied with working full time and making $1000 profit a month and they would think you were crazy. However for every american that laughs at $1000/month profit there is a large amount of people that would bust their ass for that money in other countries.

Also, each country has it's own set of rules. While American tgps played by American rules TheHun played by a different set of rules. As a result he listed a lot content and links that many people would never touch. Making him one of the few to provide that content. Today (and for the past 5 years) He's the #1 tgp online.

Anything we are not willing to do for moral, financial or any other reasons there is always someone else willing to do it. Legal action would be a huge first step. The problem is we all wait for someone else to do it for us. Not only that as an industry we are used to seeing high returns on our investments usually high immediate returns. Legal action wouldn't provide that. Any legal battle would cost quite a bit of money and there would never be any quantifiable return on that money. For example if you and I went after Megarotic. There is no doubt it would cost us quite a bit of money to accomplish anything. Then even if we accomplished something we'd never see a financial return on it. I highly doubt we'd ever get a penny from Megarotic. And while ridding them from the web would be good for our industry would you and I see a direct benefit? Nope.