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The difference mostly lies in how these arguments tie into my point (2): purchasing these items drives the market and contributes to H/D/B'ing. The fact is that buying items from a website gives that website a clear and distinct profit, encouraging them to continue supplying these items. Trading for items that you know are hacks (such as the older white rings, hex charms, etc) is less direct but is still supporting the hackers. Trading for items you know are almost certainly duped/botted (such as high runes, BotD weapons, etc) is where common sense should start to kick in -- if the item is likely duped/botted, then you need to simply not trade for the item. If the item is probably not duped/botted, then clearly there's no harm done.

I don't think anybody is denying that buying from dupers and botters is fueling the fire. I also doubt very much that anybody thinks there is the same amount of illegit items in trades as there are on websites.