seeing how Premine (coin) is working, nobody really paid much(if anything) in the beginning and it was spread from there. I didn't read much into it but it seems like a majority of it went to people who were interested early enough and just posted their account info.
It's more a play on the fact of how a coin develops "value". Through use of electricity mining the transaction fees, etc. If more people want it then the value increases.
It's funny how people are calling it a scam without even reading the thread. You get given it for free. A few people are trying to stockpile it and sell it, but that's up to them. It's a free market. If you want some PMC, you just go into the thread and ask for some. There's no conspiracy here. The dev has been completely transparent about the whole thing. It's been quite fair, actually. Apart from a handful of hoarders who are trying to be greedy, but hey, what can you do.