Hiding layout advertisements on you myspace page

A friend and I completely disagree on the ethics, of hiding, all of those corner advertisements, that many of the layout sites leave on your myspace page.

His approach, a tool that will remove ALL links, from the layout code (These ads always come in the form of links).

My approach, isolate and hide, but do not remove.
At least this way the authors credits are not completely removed.

So why does my friend think it is ok to completely remove these ads?
In MOST (not all cases) the sites placing these ads on your page, stole the code from people like my friend, myself, and several others who have freely given their time to answer people's coding questions in forums, only to have our work turned into profits for others.

I will give you the code for the "isolate and hide" method of removing the layout advertising links from your site.

<div class="layoutCode">
<a class=i href="http://spiff-myspace.blogspot.com">Hide myspace layout code</a>

YOUR LAYOUT CODE ALL GOES HERE

</div>
<style>
div.layout a, .i {display:none !important;}
</style>