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Originally Posted by camp
The internet is changing everything. It kills local stores, jobs, quality of life, and our hobby.
What looked like endless possibilities 20 years ago, is proving now to be just the opposite...
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That's because nobody knows the importance of keeping their mouth shut. I hate the idea of reviews with details, time place name acts, because it may be useful to the guys who know how to be discreet but it means exposing details that can be used to bring it all down. If you want to keep LE out of your business then don't make it any easier for them to gather their intel from a web site than gathering it by having to do a real and expensive investigation.
But we live in a world of greed where reviews are currency to web sites. It's a way to get paying members. Then one site competes against another. Then it becomes a broadly occurring phenomena with way too many sites. Then the dumb people show up pouring their own blabbering mouths into the information pool.
Then you get the news outlets making stories out of all of it. You get those in the deep mix of it writing titillating books to cash out. Then the TV shows and movies about it - I don't mean just the idea of it but actual representations of what's going on, where to find it, and even more idiots show up.
Force it all underground again. Make everyone keep their traps shut. Put together underground web sites and overload the detailed "review" sites with denial-of-service attacks to get them off the radar and guide everyone to the underground scene. No sharing of specific info, but a place to discuss the generalities and process. Keep the names & places out of it. Who wants the dummies having any easy advantage to all this anyway? Make everyone work for the info. It's either that or completely legalize it all which we all know will never happen.