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Originally Posted by RP Fade
Yes and no. If one person is jumping off the bridge, does not mean everyone else has to and that it's a good idea. Copying good ideas is one thing, but copying things that are destructive and damaging is another.
For example, the record industry saw a common enemy and banded to together for the greater good of the industry. We see an enemy and try to figure out how we can milk it and make money at it. One shady program starts doing $100 pps payouts by either ripping off the surfer or the webmaster, other programs copy them just to compete, no matter how much of terrible idea and how damaging it is in the longrun.
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Unfortunately we see an enemy and we start working with them. Take tube sites with stolen content for example. They working (worked) out deals with some companies that they wont steal their content but instead put a banner up if they give them the content to use. These companies will profit from working with that tube site because of shear volume. The ratio might be great but who cares if they get 50 sales a day more from that site. It kills the rest of the industry and everyone else who is not partnered with them but what do they care, they making sales at everyone else's expense.