Didn't know that Simon had been in the industry for 4 years. I was of the impression he was new... guess that's my bad, didn't do any research.
I wasn't actually speaking of the comments you were making when I was talking about trashing people, more the posting of the whois thing with the ad at the bottom that turned out to be a page with about 100 people on it, two of which happened to be Simon and Reece.
I agree that, particularly in an industry where we do much of our interactions online without meeting anyone in person, and where a lot of what we know about someone is mostly limited to what they tell us (which may or may not be true, and may or may not leave out material facts) then it's very reasonable to do research and find out what there is to find out.
All I ask is before we associate someone with someone else who has a terrible reputation, that we make sure the connection is real.
Our previous DVD distributor also distributed for a studio that had a pretty shady reputation. We never met the guy who owned the other studio, never talked to him or did business with him, and knew only what we'd heard from various sources. I just wouldn't want someone trashing us because we happened to be distributed by the same distributor as a company many considered shady, and I felt like what IdolKnights said (which he did acknowlege wasn't much of a connection) was akin to that, and I wouldn't want anyone doing that to me.
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