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Spoken like a man who hasn't used it himself nor truly knows anything about it. Great work!

Unfortunately this really isn't necessarily so, as can be seen from the fact (and it really is a fact) that there have been countless illegal pyramid scams eventually closed down by court order, which have had very real, very physical products. The matter is far more complicated than just that.

And that's among the reasons why it's so difficult for the public (and sometimes even for lawyers) to determine with confidence whether or not something's completely legal. And is why some things eventually end up being "tested" in court, sometimes after running for 2-3 years, sometimes even after longer than that.

I don't suggest that any of that applies to 6FM.

Yes, here you're quite right. It's not ok to be selling "the right to promote the business opportunity" and no more. But there the waters get murky, because of all the arguments about "products/services for your own use". Courts increasingly look, these days, at whether or not there are also retail customers (who are not distributors/affiliates) to determine whether or not that's so.

I'm no lawyer at all, but have actually discussed this with a couple. Empower, in my personal opinion only, is very high-risk to run into eventual legal problems. If there aren't enough (usually defined by courts as 70%) genuine retail customers using the blog service and/or any other products/services without being involved in the business opportunity, it will eventually qualify for adverse regulatory attention, for sure - just as so many other similar "opportunities" have done. These things often have a limited lifespan of typically a couple of years or so - sometimes less, sometimes more. Eventually they run on to the rocks. US courts apply what they call "the 70% rule" (precedent law/case law, but just as binding on a state court as a statute is, I think), and at some point the owners will presumably need to show that 70%+ of users of the service are genuine retail customers and not affiliates/distributors (and I don't, myself, see how they can ever hope to do that successfully?). My own understanding (again, this is a non-lawyer's comment, remember) is that 6FM isn't in this position at all, and it isn't even an MLM company, either.

It seems to me that even disregarding the interesting and doubtless highly relevant points made by Victor in post #17 above, this matter alone represents a very significant difference between the two businesses mentioned. Again, personal opinion only, of course.