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Originally Posted by BVF
You know, I just made an assumption that you had a relationship with brad due to your FEVERISH pitch of posting trying to kiss his ass....But after a whois search, I see that you are actually hosted with Mojohost, which means you have a conflict of interest, which totally invalidates what you're saying in the first place....If I had seen this before, I wouldn't have even bothered to debate with you.
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Yes, I've hosted with Brad long before his company was called Mojohost, and no, I'm not trying to kiss his ass.
If you actually read my posts in this and the other thread, you'd have seen that I'm wrestling with a similar sort of dilemma in that I'm the lone, long-time holdout in a niche where people with no ethics are currently kicking the crap out of me - and I've been standing there and letting them kick because of my ethics. I've been trying not to only protect my *own* content, but the content of other producers in my niche - and not even the other producers have taken a stand with me.
So yes, that does lead people to question whether their ethics are going to put them out of business - whether it's worth it, both to themselves and the families they support - and whether they have to compromise their ethics when both the surfers AND the producers have given in to the "public domain" argument I've been fighting for years. And that's why I sympathize with Brad's dilemma and decision, even though I'm unhappy he had to make that decision.
And there's no reason for me to kiss Brad's ass - any more than I'd kiss the ass of Time Warner (who provides my internet service) or AT&T (who provides my phone service). I know people here think there are always hidden agendas and many spend half their time trying to figure them out. I barely pay attention to the "personalities" on GFY and wouldn't recognize 99% of their names - I'm not here to debate with anyone - and when I make a business post, there are no hidden agendas. I'm not a "bro," stopped going to shows several years ago, and am way too old to do anything other than speak my mind honestly.