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Fair Use Computer Game
mpawlo writes "As reported by Greplaw, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) together with Privacyactivism has released an interactive video game designed to
educate players about their privacy and fair use rights. The game is focused on digital rights management technologies, online spyware, and data profiling servers. We have seen similar games in Sweden from the Anti-piracy Bureau and Flash movies from BSA in the US, however striking a different tune. Play Carabella." Cute idea.
This "game" seems all too reminiscent of the kind of "edutainment" that the War on Drugs has been pumping out. If parents want their children to love liberty, then they should teach them about it when the children are old enough to understand. Trying to brainwash them with video games will work until they're 15, at which point they'll run away from home, become pot-addicted prostitutes, and join the Christian Coalition.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
So, I go to the site.
Play the game
It tells me I should surf anonymously.
I try the privacy.net page to see what I leave behind.
I go to the recommended www.anonymizer.com.
Put in the privicy.net page to check what they really do:
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This Page is available with an Aonymizer subscription
WHY IS THE PAGE UNAVAILABLE
The Anonymizer Free Trial version restricts access to some web sites in order to keep the service working quickly and efficiently, without overloading.
Sites most often restricted include gaming, casino, adult, career, and web email sites. Other sites may be restricted at random as well.
Our Full Version premium service DOES NOT restrict access to any pages, costs less than $5 per month, and has many more features than the free version. Sign up now!
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So, in order to check out what they are trying to sell me, I need to subscribe?
On to the next (rewebber):
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WELCOME TO REWEBBER!
You are a registered user of our regular service? Please press the button
You do not have a valid Rewebber account yet? We are very pleased about your interest and give you the option to test our service for free.
Please register for your test account
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Registering REQUIRES an email account that they will send a testing password to (sure, mail accounts are easy to come by, but it is kind of a bother to just have a look at the results.
NEXT: http://www.multiproxy.org
No Data. This is a site that appears to exist to sell ads to you in the most annoying way they can. It's a freeware thing you load and appears to - damn, another ad floated in and blocked that part of the page.
Next: www.inetprivacy.com
35 bucks. Although it says you can download from a broken link.
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Overall, pretty bad results from the EFF recommended way of surfing without leaving a trail.
Spackler
PS: I ran these from IE (hence the floating ads that I had not seen in a while). Man, this is how people surfed before Mozilla?