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This sounds like an advertisment. Just take a look at the history... It's pretty obvious how drastically the opinions change about this company.

Encryptio 21:09, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

It's not exactly an advertisement. It's a rather touchy issue that's been raging in full force the past day or two regarding one of the biggest BitTorrent sites (and among the bigger websites) on the internet. The opinions range from apathy/neutrality to just unbelievable anger/frustration, mostly the latter... janey the crazy 07:01, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Yea if TargetPoint employees are reading this, please answer this question. What about the idea of using BitTorrent because it is FREE, you are ruining the spirit of seeding. You are making people PAY to register so they can put THEIR GOODS on the site for people to download and you just sit there doing nothing and watch the profits from the every annoying pop ups roll in... imagefap is the worst pic site ever, every time I click I am BOMBARDED why is it necessary to BOMBARD people with ads. Its far from an effective form of advertisement, rather it is EXTREMELY frustrating, you are alienating the very consumers you wish to lure. --Your Average Good Perv on Empornium (Will not be staying due to asshole greedy management)

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While the above might be true it's far from being unbiased. No one was forced sign the contracts giving the rights to the Empornium domain name to Targetpoint.

This was a voluntary action on the part of the sites founder. When he found that perhaps he wasn’t getting such a good deal in that people who he’d sold the domain name to actually did want to control it. Off he went and started to play the victim role saying he was taken advantage of. He somehow managed to get people to buy this into this load of manure… The fact of the matter is the individuals who went on to form Cheggit put a consolidated effort into ruining. The Empornium Message forums with a huge amount of anti-targetpoint spam. The tracker itself also suffered from this childish behavior. In the form of a large numbers of the torrents being deleted by disgruntled “Smut Peddles” followed by the deletion of their accounts. To say this was a large number of people is a fallacy. These people were and are a self appointed elitist group. However as is the case with most private bittorrent trackers a fairly small percentage of the community contribute the majority of the content.

The counter point to this is PureTnA that didn’t suffer from this type of childish behavior. No one cares that an advertising company owes the domain name and servers. So the message forums have never suffered spam bombardment. The tracker itself has never seen a mass torrent deletions nor the exodus of “elite users”

[edit] Investigation?

I removed this from the article, pending confirmation by some reputable source:

The company is under investigation for click fraud and tax evasion in Sweden and The Netherlands. CEO Or Kuntzman claims that they report all earnings to Israeli authorities, but according to Swedish police, Targetpoint is engaged in "massive fraud and extensive copyright infringement." Charges are expected to be filed against six of the company's employees.

AxelBoldt 19:59, 27 September 2006 (UTC)