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Did this boggle your mind?[ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#4)
by spocko on Fri Apr 15, 2005 at 06:36:05 PM PDT

"You also agree to pay CDT $300 per hour to attend arbitration including transport time."

Wow! I hate shit like that. So I guess if I'm going to take them to arbitration I better kick their ass and make a lot of money. Whose going to do this?

I think that the big companies like Google that are loosing ad revenue from companies that hijack the brower during search should sue these folks for restraint of trade. Or the advertisers should sue. You type in trips to hawaii on google and your browswer is hijacked to Hawaii A Go Go airlines instead of the Search Ad from United, United is going to be pissed. I would be.

Spyware (and even adware) is different from viruses. They are put out by companies that have assets and staff. They can and should be sued for doing illegal things. Nobody REALLY cares about the endusers, but they do care if some other company is coming and stealing their revenue stream.

This is business and we have rules, the spyware people think they have a loophole because most users don't know the score, but as Ben's website proves, when money is being lost and revenue being redirected people finally sit up and take notice. We need to sicc the big ad players on these spy ware makers.


Spocko. Author of www.spockosbrain.com the blog that is sweeping the nation! Now with 19 readers!
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