DISQUS

Scott Johnson of FuzzyBlog, Oo · 3 years ago

Excellent article. Thank you. Its definitely a tax and its very, very real. I write about my personal experiences with this here:

http://fuzzyblog.com/archives/2006/08/31/the-bl...
Joseph Hunkins · 3 years ago

Auren - Nice summary of a complex situation although you also should note how companies who have PPC revenue shares (like Google) get HUGE short term cash benefits from fraudulent clicking.
seaan · 3 years ago

Reminds me of the USA cryptography export rules. Working at a company in the 80's to mid 90's where it would take 2-3 months for the application and approval process to merely send a data sheet of our product outside the country (even to the UK where our largest competitor was based).

We always figured the cost was 20-25% of our overhead (design impacts, multiple versions of the same product, export control clerks and processes, etc.).

Obviously the bigggest difference here, is that our problem was eventually minimized by reducing goverment regulation. There is no single obvious solution for the problems causing this resource drain.
hat · 3 years ago

I felt good about this post. It confirmed for me some of the things Iâ€™ve been thinking about.