When BTC started, nobody had any and it was worthless, so it was right to give away thousands of BTC to make it popular. All that has changed. Now that BTC's worth something, now that companies are building on BTC, now that serious business transactions are made with bitcoin, it's about time for faucets to adapt.
BTC is real. It's money, and you've got to work to earn some. I hope all faucets will disappear in 2015. Faucets are hurting bitcoin by making some people believing you can get it while doing nothing sitting in your home. No, BTC isn't like that, and it shouldn't be any easier to get than any fiat currency. Even for small amounts.
people say you can not make big money with the faucet ( as a faucet owner ) which is really not true if you look at freebitco.in traffic do you know how much he is making monthly ? in thousands
so faucets are business a legal business i dont think so it is hurting anyone its a kind of market now and also some noobs get some free satoshis to play with.
I doubt anyone says that faucet owners do not make money, if they didn't faucets wouldn't exist. A lot of faucets make a good amount of money even if they are not as famous as freebitco.in mosly because they pay dust and have like 100 ads all over the place