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Originally posted by GunnCat
I think he should provide the IDs if the law passes. People buy content expecting it to be legal. Paying extra for it to be legal stinks. Doesn't much matter to me, I don't have any of their content, and after reading this would doubt if I would buy any.
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Agree it takes a certain sort of person to work how he does... but, unless I don't have the full story, he really does seem to be acting within reasonable ethics to me.
He says there was an option to buy his full catalog for $1000 or for $5000 and the more expensive version was higher quality and included docs.. I realise there was no imperitive to pay 5 times the amount for docs 12 months back.. but it was still a choice the buyer had.
Just because it turns out that higher prices turned out to be the better choice for American's doesnt make it Eric's bad.. in fact it makes me think he is probably a bit smarter than we give him credit for a times if this was part of his business plan with that cheap content run to start with.
he made a bet that he could get market share with cheap prices and webmasters might have to come back one day to buy those docs and make his profit back up.
Not arguing it's a sleazy plan if that was the plan.. but I don't see any reason why he should give anyone the extras for free now legally or even ethically... It was the webmaster's choice to deal with that idiot,... they paid low prices happilly with no documents.. whining that that it is illegal now just makes me want to laugh. If webmasters didnt give a toss about really finding out if the model was of age then....... it's hard to feel sorry for them now Im afraid.
Now all that is assuming Eric is telling the truth and really always has charged extra for docs. If he is just twisting it that way now... I take it all back ;-)