Whilst part of me does understand and agree that WW is a profit making organisation and in these financial climates all business are trying to keep their heads above water - lets be realistic WW are never going have that problem, there are not in danger of going bust anytime soon.
The other side of the coin is that also in these financial climates people are trying to tighten the purse strings and save a little here and there and lets face it WW meetings are quite expensive to the everyday jane doe.
WW are really cracking down and basically don't want anyone to find any info about the WW plan through any other means than the meetings or the website - cut people a bit of slack I say!
I might pay for the meetings but I would gladly help anyone follow WW, I would gladly lend them my books etc and I would never get miffed that I am paying and they are not. It would never occur to me to think that way, when I first did WW 6 years ago, someone kindly copied all the books for me, I was very grateful to happy to pay that back to anyone and infact have lent my books to someone.
I think their hard line is a little too much and alienating people from wanting to attending classes and/or pay for their products will be far more long lasting.
Thats my personal opinion and rant over!