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Re:How Three Germans Are Cloning the Web by limmeau on Friday March 02, 2012 @08:25AM (#3656473)
I had completely missed that the Samwer brothers were in the web copying business. Last time I heard of them, they were busy selling teenagers ringtone subscriptions ("Jamba").
Re:How Three Germans Are Cloning the Web by cygx on Friday March 02, 2012 @09:20AM (#3656636)
They were in the copycat business first, selling alando.de to ebay for millions, ~100 days after launch.

They have a history of making money by, if not illegal, at least morally questionable means, and got in trouble with the unions about treatment of employees...