I am delighted to see the conversation here, and that so many of you have actually gone and learned about it. That is why I posted the links.
Blackhat as it is seen today will be eradicated, you know it and they know it.
Even if you don’t have any problem with the lack of morality of it, the fact that it can only be short lived should convince you to stick to working with the search engines, not against them.
Will something else come along to trip us up? Of course.
It will never stop. But if we stick together and combat the hurdles others build for us, we wll keep moving on ahead as we have all these years, while they fall by the wayside.