This point his been discussed many, many times - both in this thread and elsewhere. Deals come, deals go - restrictions won't stop people being able to share elsewhere once they get enough posts if they really want to. FT is open to the public - whether people like it or not! And lets not forget there have been times deals have been posted on FT which were first discussed elsewhere (the big NW FD a couple of years ago was from a UK board I think, XP.fr was first being discussed on a German board).