The very fact that a product/service/company does not have a clear and solid revenue model. The fact that their success is measured by generated traffic (downl

The very fact that a product/service/company does not have a clear and solid revenue model. The fact that their success is measured by generated traffic (downloads/page-views/subscribers etc) can cause some people to make very strange choices. This may not be the reason but surely helps many in our industry to reach those dark spots of ethics and faithfulness. If your users are customers, that is, they pay you, then you will care about their privacy, as you know that otherwise, you will loos them. If they don't, and yet consume your bandwidth and CPU, you may find yourself end up sniffing their address-books, claiming copyrights on their images or selling their clicks and choices to campaigners.