Tarek wrotethe way he is asking for it : " what would you give me if I tell you " is like blackmailing .
he is turning from a white hat into a black hat
Nah... blackmailing would be "what would you give me for NOT doing xxxx".
That's more like selling.
The line between the is not always very clear, arguably.
The way I conceive blackmailing is someone having the capacity to harm someone else, and demanding money in exchange for not using this capacity, when he has no motive whatsoever to use it.