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Did you click through and read our long standing policy? Just for clarity, and before you go taking shots at us in the dark again, when the policy you're claiming we don't have is directly above the text you entered..

"Since the very beginnings of Weblogs, Inc, we've functioned under the assumption that we're expected to act like journalists. This isn't an editorial policy -- we're chock full of strong opinion, snark and other things which would make your J-School professor cry like Robin Williams getting a Brazilian wax. Its a "stuff" policy.

Weblogs, Inc bloggers don't take anything. Period. In the case of Download Squad, if we're sent boxed software or anything tangible of monetary value, we give it away. Companies do often send us product keys for down-loadable software which are not transferable -- in those cases it's expected that we stick to our honor and actually purchase the software if we find it personally useful. In any event, license keys rarely exceed the $20-30 dollar mark in value.

The real ridiculousness in the FTC guideline is, as an editor here, I have no real idea where the line ends up being drawn. But know with confidence that we've always been above board about our policy and, even if we don't often make a big deal about it, we're proud to be held to such a high standard."

There, I fixed that for ya.