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Originally Posted by Shaggy
This had nothing to do with "piracy". Lendle wasn't doing anything illegal, as far as I can see. The only thing they "violated" was Amazon's business model. Amazon certainly isn't required to support them, but it's also probably not the smartest move to try and stop them. I'm sure a certain percentage of the Lendle users will probably end up on real "piracy" sites now.
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The piracy issue was my own concern, admittedly, and I'm certainly open to being proven wrong -- in fact several posts in this thread have gone a long way toward easing my mind about it.
I agree completely that Lendle wasn't doing anything illegal -- I've stated this already. I think that Lendle was doing something
stupid. That something stupid was building an infrastructure that
relied on Amazon's Product Advertising API.
Plus I was taking issue with any suggestion the Amazon "shut them down."
As someone else has mentioned; with a little more foresight... the pulling of their API access would have been a minor glitch and they would have been up and running in a short amount of time.
They should suck it up, retool and re-open instead of whining about how Amazon was mean to them.