Hold on chaps, I always thought being 'helpful' was assisting an old lady to cross the road? This other sort of 'help' doesn't really 'help' me. Somebody else (with no interest themselves) finding a specific item I've researched tediously, and then alerting all and sundry to its existence, is simply going to make me age so quickly I won't even be able to cross my own bedroom.
But with respect, how would you have researched tediously, or tirelessly, without the help of people on the internet and perhaps specifically on forums such as this one?
For my individual part, I would take my increased knowledge and perhaps heightened awareness of 'what was out there' as a result of the internet (and all that that means) over and above 'perhaps' being made to pay something over the odds if no one knew else about 'it' - this 'it', that even I might not have known about other than for the fact of having read the internet.
There is a phrase, the technicality of which I cannot get my head around, which basically says, 'you can't have your cake and eat it.' The argument of, why the hell else one would want a cake if Not to eat it aside, you know what I mean. The internet means, the information will get out.
Brave New World.