STRUG - Why the Access Restriction?

Super Torch Ritual Underground came into existence out of necessity. It was created specifically in order to deal with two big problems...

1. I got tired of plagiarists and all those (and there are many) who found it perfectly ok to exploit my website. Low-profile and full of original ideas, the hyenas saw in Etemenanki an easy target just asking to be taken advantage of. What they saw was a great opportunity to steal valuable information and bring attention and in some cases money to themselves.
   
   A radio host named Gary Bell (or 'Spaceman' as he calls himself), for example, went beyond mere plagiarism. On his weekly radio show 'View From Space', he literally filled and sold hours upon hours of airtime simply reading my articles on the air, often word for word, not even once mentioning me as the source (or for that matter that he was reading)! This appalling behavior had gone on for months if not years by the time I caught him. Shocked and awed, I contacted/confronted him and the radio station, and their response was shockingly unapologetic. They were making money off my original work and they didn't seem to care much that I found out. Apparently to them I was an obscure figure on the internet with valuable information just asking to be exploited.
   
   I had had enough. My tolerance and patience ran out. I knew it was time to make changes. Time to stop feeding the parasites (including 'Fake Jake' & Co. - more recent but equally nasty ones). It was time to go 'underground'. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, and the creation of STRUG was that reaction... a safer place to share information away from the exploiters. Plus...
   

2. It takes an inordinate amount of time to produce information that I do. And time is money. It finally came to the point where it was becoming financially unsustainable. Either I had to stop the unique work or create a subscriber section to help fund the work. (I already tried the 'donation' route, of course, which simply did not work out.) STRUG was thus created, and it's crawling its way forward.

STRUG was needed. STRUG was thus created. That's basically the story.

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