ah, okay. so the hypothetical company may potentially be doing something illegal (the "investigative consumer report" part). good to know! that makes sense, and i was unaware of that.

i stand corrected in the hypothetical "bad reference aggregator company" scenario.

>YCombinator partners are on the record[3] supporting the idea of their startups sometimes doing illegal things.

interesting, thanks for surfacing that up! i wont pretend to be surprised, though.