D-Squared Can Resume Pop-Ups, For Now

Posted by timothy on Monday December 15, 2003 @02:24PM from the got-firebird dept.

linuxwrangler writes "According to this SF Gate article, U.S. District Judge Andre Davis said there was insufficient evidence for him to grant a preliminary injunction preventing D-Squared from using Microsoft's messenger service to send pop-up ads to Windows users. D-Squared used the Windows messenger service to pop-up ads as often as every 10 minutes. The ads promoted its product -- software to stop 'these unwanted and illegal pop-up messages forever with the click of a button' - a practice the FTC called 'high-tech extortion.'"

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How Sad by Radu+Lycan · 2003-12-15 15:11 · Score: 1, Flamebait

How sad... /sigh. Not surprised in the least about this, considering how pro-business the current US Powers That Be are lately. Just how stupid could they be to somehow not be certain that D-Squared is doing something so blatently illegal? (well, either stupid or being influenced/controlled by someone else). Oh well...heres hoping the US gets better before the whole thing goes to "hell in a handbasket" :P A major civil war would be a good thing now imo, before the US becomes even more draconian then it already is *rolls eyes*