Know your enemy

[Nelson9792@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 5/8/2003 10:50:24 AM, TheWho-Digest-Owner@igtc.com writes:

> Would any of you paid to enter a child porn site "for research"?>  >>

I would not have, but I don't think that paying to access the site, in the 
course of gathering information to fight that sort of thing, is necessarily 
an "immoral" thing (stupid, perhaps...)

For example, I used to work as a Marketing Manager for a technology/consumer 
electronics company.  I would routinely purchase samples of our competitors' 
products for "research." This would be used in product development to ensure 
that our products were better than theirs and to put together competitive 
comparisons for our sales staff to use.  Yes, we gave them money by 
purchasing their products, but is was ultimately to enable us to more 
effectively compete against them.

Personally, I do believe that Pete was gathering information in the fight 
against these "people," rather than seeking titillation (but then, I am a bit 
biased...).

--Mike