D Squared To Stop Sending Pop-Ups

bizpile writes "D Squared Solutions, the company created by college students Anish Dhingra and Jeffrey Davis, has agreed to stop bombarding computer users with Internet pop-up ads to advertise its ad-blocking software, avoiding a court battle with the Federal Trade Commission. They were sending pop-up ads using the Messenger function enabled on many Windows operating systems. Their attorneys claimed the pair were not trying to extort consumers with their ads and only intended to send one a day to computer users. Lawyer Anthony J. Dain has said the ads are 'annoyances you have to deal with in a free society.'" (The San Diego Union-Tribune also has a story.)

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Annoyances?

[nysus]

'annoyances you have to deal with in a free society.'

Which? Lawyers that defend assholes like this?

Annoyances

[Chapium]

I guess they learned about another annoyance in a free society: Lawyers

We promise only to bother you once

[KarmaOverDogma]

Oh yeah... Right...

Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - can't get fooled again.

Oh, wait, that's the guy from Texas, isn't it?

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Annoyances, huh?

[ScrewMaster]

Anyone got this "Dain" person's IP address? I have a "NET SEND" that I'd like to throw his way.

Annoyances

[Kwil]

You know other annoyances you might have to deal with in a free society? People throwing excrement at your house and car if you're a scumbag lawyer.

Hell, it's biodegradable, so it can be argued that it takes even less action to clean up than a windows messenger pop-up.. just leave it there long enough and it'll go away.