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Originally Posted by Due
If you go back 15 years people used to have a higher moral as far as what was accepted and what wasn't.
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I wouldn't be so sure. Content theft was just as widespread as it is now. The only difference is that back then it was primarily pictures. The Hun started his site by backdooring AVS sites, how's that for morals? Yet nowadays he preaches about legal content and condemns the tubes. And how about the tons of webmasters pushing auto-installing dialers, which hi-jacked the phone line? You and I both pushed dialers back in the day. I never pushed the nasty ones, but maybe you did? Not accusing you of anything, I just know that many old timers did and nowadays, if they're still around, claim they're clean and have always been.
Also, lots of sponsors were doing shady shit with cross-sales, one-click upsells and whatnot. Some of them even got busted and had to pay sizable fines. And let's not even get into the rampant e-mail spam, advertising porn sites.
My point is, morals were by no means any better back then, especially since the Internet was pretty much still the Wild West. It's just changed between then and now. Morals are no worse, they've just taken a different form of being expressed. Just because you don't remember the shit that was going on back in the day doesn't mean it stunk any less.