Profiting from traffic and paying for stolen goods are two very different things, so I don't think the point does still stand.
You could have gotten a good bit of mileage simply by reporting about the hack, instead you decided to do damage to others for your own profits.
It's funny how acceptable stuff like that has become, and how you seem to be claiming some kind of moral highground here for something that is simply sleazy.
Profitting from stolen goods, directly or indirectly is unethical, if you had any sense at all you'd have given twitter a warning that their files are out in the open and you'd have destroyed the data.
I hope one day you'll find the tables turned, we'll see how ethical you will think this is then.
And I'll be on your side in that one, just like I was solidly on twitters side in the other.
Giving people a platform to do damage and to profit from that is sickening.
Because either way they gained from stuff that wasn't theirs to begin with and that was taken with malicious intent.
I wasn't aware that TC was on the record for not having paid, but that, as I said in my eyes makes little to no difference.
I wish sincerely that TC will have a helping of their own medicine and we'll see how they react, judging by this 'poll' I don't think they'll be as gracious as twitter was.