Every market made for optimal allocation of resources attracts speculators. In many cases speculation keeps the market liquid. Nothing wrong with that. But fraud and misrepresentation are always wrong, even if the victims are speculators. If this fellow withheld key disclosure items his next job should be making license plates and then let the stockholders have at him. But since that isn't happening, it's sort of stupid to be still complaining.
When the government takes money and donates it to causes, conservatives are up in arms because they don't like their money going to those causes and they claim they are charitable enough in their own right. But when medical insurance companies, patent trolls, and other gatekeepers, middlemen, and economic parasites take some of their rents and "give back" to the community, somehow those conservatives don't mind at all. The net effect is the same: you paid for charity by others. But somehow because it is private enterprise and not government everything's just fine!
In contrast to voting, where there are myriad ways to make your vote meaningless, voting with your dollars always counts for full effect, one dollar of effect per dollar spent or not spent.
There were costs, just no revenue. Therefore, you paid those costs (time, hosting, electricity) yourself. While you did not seek financial success, financial considerations were always present.
There is no such thing as non-commercial, only varying degrees of commercial success. Everyone gets paid one way or another. As soon as you try to put up a "non-commercial" wall, you distort the money field and it finds ways over, under, or around the walls, warping everything else with it. See amateur athletics at Olympics and NCAA, for just one example.
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Solution: Google won't screen DMCA and ContentID requests.
Do you see the opportunity there?
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But I'm not sure piling on charges is really misconduct.
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