Scale has a quality all its own. You create a highly useful website full of dense hard earned knowledge. Some people will just use that knowledge, but a few cr

Scale has a quality all its own. You create a highly useful website full of dense hard earned knowledge. Some people will just use that knowledge, but a few create their own sites, using what they learned. A company sweeps up hard earned knowledge from millions of sites, with automation but not permission, and goes a long way to making those millions of informational sites redundant without any compensation. Simplifying things obviously. But these two scenarios are not equivalent.