Janet, I respect the attempt at positive PR here, but you likely bit off more than anyone can chew with this thread.
I doubt anyone could convince this communty of hardworking webmasters that other people feeding off their work are ok. It’s not going to happen, because really, laws or no laws, it is not ok and it is theft and it does hurt people and it needs to be brought under control.
It’s the blackhatters that need to adjust their business model, not us.
And, unfortunately, as long as there are malicious blackhat attacks on white hat sites by 888 paid entities, every discussion of this subject will revert to 888.
This thread has a better chance of growing into a useful exchange once 888 reels in it’s rogue blackhatter.