Exactly the same way I have felt about both Scribd and Justin.tv. Here is another "algorithm" to gain traction, last seen at Ning: 1) allow adult content - in

Exactly the same way I have felt about both Scribd and Justin.tv. Here is another "algorithm" to gain traction, last seen at Ning: 1) allow adult content - in their case adult oriented social networks 2) gain traction, 3) jettison the adult content to clean up your image. At least this second algorithm has no legal issues, but third party copyrighted content, I have serious legal/ethical issues with. I have never understood why Y Combinator never saw that as a problem.