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> Hugspoon competes with Punchfork by stealing its data and giving no value in return.

How are they competing with it? Punchfork is gone. Isn't it Pinterest's fight now? I doubt that a term of the acquisition was "personally deal with people who are copying the Punchfork data".

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I'm sorry, are you saying that stealing from larger companies is okay? Anyway, I'm done here. This behavior is scandalous, rude and shameful. I don't think I need to defend this view point anymore than I already have.

Eh, I think your viewpoint is clouded by your friendship with Jeff Miller. You "know" that his motives are pure, because you think he is a good person. But this is not at all clear for someone who doesn't know him, especially if you look at the initial messaging about the Punchfork acquisition.

It really doesn't matter what tone you read that note in, all of Cameron and team's behavior is completely unacceptable, unprofessional and unethical.

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