According to various research reports including this one from Cybersecurity Ventures, global ransomware is growing at a fast rate (from $325 mil in 2015 to $5 bil in 2017 according to this report)
http://cybersecurityventures.com/ransomware-damage-report-2017-5-billion/As most ransomware demand BTC payments and some major corporations stock up on BTC in anticipation of these attacks does anyone feel that they are indirectly investing in the ransomware industry?
Well of course if they keep paying the ransomware and not even bothering to fight to save money, the ransomware will become even more and more popular, and it will snowball causing ransomware to be the perfect and most profitable crime to commit, and if you find someone who has some dark secrets to hide or a company that has no time to fight, it will be easy to exploit them.
I think the companies should just use that Bitcoin that they use to pay to remove the ransomware to combat the ransomware and fight it, we shouldn't cave in to these criminals.