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No one can prevail that a successful lasting violation of law worth recognition of it as an accepted legal usage.<p>(Except if you are rich and have guns because when it comes to owning lands, occupying long enough a place is legally owning).<p>I do agree that the ToS are shit. They were since the beginning. What new brands are doing is called : claiming rights on the second creation.<p>They give you proprietary shovels with open API to rush for gold, and once you have taken the risks and you can make money they can decide to let you live or not.<p>People laughed at me 10 years ago with this topic.<p>Entrepreunariat is about being a jake of all trades. You cannot be weak neither in coding, nor economy, nor business, nor accounting, nor legal contracts. You skipped &quot;the leg days&quot; of business. Reading the contracts and evaluating the risks, assessing the uncertainties. And you failed.<p>Well. Blame it on you and your blindness. Don&#x27;t appeal to my pity.<p>Vae Victis. That is the way of business, and you should take responsibility for your own bad choices and understand that with great power comes more painful arrows in the knees.<p>All people supporting your claims should rather also think of the consequences of sustaining unsound business practices. If you would win, it would be yet another loss for all of a fair competition on the market.<p>I actually love your idea and have a lot of respect for your realization. Building is great. Making lasting products and risk management is even more important.<p>So, please shutdown your site and share the depressing conclusions you will come to. Learn like a true entrepreneur, and go back to work with your newly acquired knowledge, and think of whether or not you can rebuild your product on better foundations.<p>Success is not what make business man. It is overcoming your failure. The only true capital of a business man is fortitude.