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Originally Posted by Nate the great
That group was initially banned from this forum because they were caught engaging in commercial piracy, and then caught lying about having stopped it. They sold access to pirated ebooks on their site, and after I called them out they claimed to have stopped but instead they actually just spun off the piracy site. We saw through the deception when someone here noticed that both the blog and the pirate site had the same Paypal account.
Then about a year later or so we realized that the MR member that had been promoting and defending that blog was actually a sockpuppet for the blog. It had the same IP address as the previously banned GeR account, but we really only noticed that after their obnoxious behavior brought them to everyone's attention.
edit: here's link to when we discovered the sockpuppetry
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...93#post1694993 |
Thanks for the detailed clarification. Hadn't seen that thread. It was another one which I had read about them which convinced me not to back their Indiegogo campaign.