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Originally Posted by Deus
This type of information should be given to people not sold for profit.
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...excerpted the best information from 100's of pages of print and online publications from the Dept. of Homeland Security, FEMA, local and state governments, non-profit groups (including info from the UK, Japan, and Israel, where more experience with terrorism has made them experts on this issue), the Transportation Security Administration, travel columnists, and travel organizations.
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Apparently all of this info is available free, they just collected, organized, and packaged it.
I don't really criticize them for this, however. If I spent 3 or 4 hours at my PC, I could probably download a lot of this info for free. But, 3 hours of my free time is worth more to me than the purchase price of this package. There's also a chance that there are some useful tidbits here that I wouldn't uncover in those 3 or 4 hours.
Don't misunderstand me. I'm not shilling for this company, which I first heard of 3 minutes ago. All I know about the info pack came from a quick skim of their site. My intent is to defend the concept of selling packaged information that otherwise is publicly available. Such an operation could be a ripoff or a genuine value. Two examples:
1. Suppose I offered, for $29.95, a package of "Tips and Hidden Secrets of the Pocket PC," and my product was simply an unedited download of a few PPCT forums, and contained nothing that most readers didn't already know. Ripoff.
2. Suppose someone offered a subscription to a compete, up-to-date schedule for every airline in the country. This info is available for free on each airline's website. Still, OAG (the Official Airline Guide people) is a thriving and respected firm. IIRC, it was once valued at more than many of the major airlines it describes.