> On the first, my assumption(/hope) is that many consumers would reconsider a purchase if they knew it was the direct result of abusive practices. > On the fi

> On the first, my assumption(/hope) is that many consumers would reconsider a purchase if they knew it was the direct result of abusive practices. > On the first, my assumption(/hope) is that many consumers would reconsider a purchase if they knew it was the direct result of abusive practices. This is very hard to assess, other than price there's very little transparency about these practices. No one boats about this in their marketing material. But let me give you an insight: Kickstarter and other crowdfunding campaigns. Many companies try to launch their products and concepts on Kickstarter, only to find that someone made a copy of their intellectual property and beat them to market, and you will say, that's just the market optimizing itself. I think it's trickier than that, as we are draining people from bringing their products to market because there are people on the sidelines waiting to copy the outcome of their work and investment.